A truck and a trailer are two completely different things. Obviously. Yet, we mate them together to create something better than we had before. Here are some examples:
- We create a tractor-trailer rig, and we can ship goods across the country.
- We purchase an RV, and we can tow our home with us.
- We attach a toy hauler to our off-road vehicle, and we have our sports gear at hand.
- We hook up a new bass boat, and we can leave the land behind and head out across open water.
All of these are possible because of what we mate to our truck. Without our trailer, we couldn’t do any of these things.
And if we should lose our trailer while on the road? It’s unthinkable. What’s the point in our travels, if our hitch comes undone and we are forced to leave our trailer behind? The solution is linking our truck and trailer with a safety chain.
A safety chain is an extra measure of security that keeps us firmly hitched together. If something happens to break the connection holding our tow vehicle to the trailer, the safety chain keeps the link in place long enough for us to reseat the connection and get back on the road again.
In life, we are that truck and trailer. A man is very different from a woman, and yet the two are perfectly suited for each other. In a marriage, two people open up a wide world of possibilities that would be unavailable otherwise. They are linked together, and their safety chain is love.
Hebrews 13:4 gives us our marriage safety chain:
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”
We will hit bumps, and our connection with our spouse will be tested. We can count on it. No one gets the perfect road. There will be potholes of temptation, tall mountains of adversity, and blind corners we won’t see coming. When the strain on our relationship breaks us apart, it’s the love that’s our safety chain, giving us time to reconnect the hitch and get back on the road.
Love is what allows us to repair the damage when life batters our relationships.
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Originally Published 5-18-15 in Relationships