Aisle, altar, hymn

There is the story told and re-told so many times that no one knows if it is true anymore of a young bride to be who is nervous about what to do on the day of her wedding. Her dad says to think of it like this - aisle, altar, hymn. You walk up the aisle, stand at the altar and sing the first hymn then the vicar takes over and you follow his lead.

Thus it is that as the bride walks up the aisle eyes fixed on her husband to be she is repeating over and over aisle altar hymn, aisle altar hymn, aisle altar hymn, I'll alter him.

It is amusing little story but actually it does shed light on what is often a problem in marriage. Everyone has little habits that we find off putting, maybe even annoying, perhaps even irritating. And often people go into marriage thinking they can change the other person.

But the Bible would tell us that it is only the gospel that changes people. Therefore what we need and our marriages need is gospel change. If we understand the gospel better and work it into our life and into our marriages more then we will have marriage as the best it can be.