"Time and distance quench a small love, but make a great love grow stronger."
Today I read this quote after reading a story about a couple. Their story goes a little something like this...
Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand had the most romantic real-life love story I've ever heard of. But ironically their marriage was nothing like the "white picket fence" scenario that most us dream about. Their life together was marked by intense persecution, torture, imprisonment, poverty, and over ten years of separation from each other. When Richard sat in the pastor's convention listening to the name of Christ being blasphemed, Sabina had a choice to make. She could either cling to her desire to keep her husband by her side and her family protected, or she could make Jesus Christ her highest priority. She chose to honor the name of Christ, even though it meant giving up everything in life that she held dear.
Richard was thrown in prison, and she spent ten years not knowing whether he was dead or alive. Was the beauty of their love story dimmed by such dismal circumstances? Just the opposite. After years of praying and agonizing for her husband, Sabina received a note scrawled in Richard's unmistakable handwriting. He was only allowed to write a few words, which would be censored by prison guards. His words were : "Time and distance quench a small love, but make a great love grow stronger"
(From Set-Apart Femininity By: Leslie Ludy)
God placed me in Louisville for the summer. He placed Derrick in Bowling Green. He is using us in the same way and that is to serve him better. I would much rather be closer to Derrick, but that was not the Lord's plan this summer. The time apart has been difficult at times, but small frustrations are always a result of selfishness. I am sinful. Derrick is sinful. That is why we must cling to the cross daily. After reading this today I realized that Christ should be my main focus all of the time, whether in a relationship or not in a relationship, Christ should be my life.
As I grow in my love for Derrick day after day, it isn't because of his good looks, great sense of humor, or ability to fart 50 times in one day (these are all added Bonuses... haha) BUT it is his love for the Lord. I know that Christ is way more important to Derrick than me and I praise God for that. I praise God to be dating an amazing Godly man who is all about serving the Lord. In this season while we are apart...I seek to grow more with the Lord as well.
"We Love because He first loved us." 1 John 4:19
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