How God Uses Wedding Rings Part III

Over the past couple days, I have been inviting you into the story of the Wedding Rings that my Beautiful Wife™ and I now enjoy.

Today I want to talk a bit about what we learned thru the whole process.

If your just finding the Marry Blogger …Welcome!

You will probably get something out of the list below by just reading it, but I would invite you to read the rest of our story so you can see how we got here in the first place!

Here is our Wedding Ring Story Part I

Here is our Wedding Ring Story Part II

What can you learn about yourself, God, and your marriage, from hunting for Wedding Rings?

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It is Interesting How God Works

Its always fun to tell our Wedding Ring story, because we see God in it so much.

Here is a quick list of five things that we really learned from our experience:

1. We wanted to be good stewards of what we had.

We didn’t want to go in debt. We were certain of that. We went back and forth, expensive rings, not expensive rings? Showy, Not showy? Finally we decided on simple bands, and to trade up later in our marriage. We both were comfortable and happy with that decision.

God honored that decision in a big way. He gave us so much more that we could have ever expected.

2. We figured out that our marriage was about much more than the rings.

We didn’t need them to show off to our friends, we wanted real symbols of our marriage. That was much more important than big rocks and debt up to our eyeballs.

They were symbols of our love, of our relationship, our commitment to each other. Sure, we would have loved to be able to afford much more, but we just couldn’t at the time.

We were set on simple rings to show our love to one another. But God had so much more in mind.

3. When our hearts were right, God really showed up.

I did one year of live commercials on the radio for our friends at the Jewelry Shop. In return for my 5 minutes a week of talking about the jeweler on the air, we got so much more than we EVER thought we could get.

We have NO payments on our rings. They are beautiful pieces. We ended up with 3 rings for the mere investment of my time.

(It is interesting that we left New Orleans very shortly after the contract with the Jeweler ran out. Which leads to…)

4. It was all God’s Timing.

Yeah, He waited until just about a month before we got married to show us how He moves.

I believe that if we had gotten the rings any earlier in the process, we would have taken them for granted, and not seen God in it at all.

Because of the delay, because of what he was doing in our hearts, and because of how it all came together, God gets all the credit.

The Beautiful Wife and I just aren’t that good.

5. We had to go thru the process.

There is no way that we would have learned so much about God, about our future marriage, or about what it meant to both of us if He would have just given us the rings early in the process.

He was growing us, helping us form our values, what we really believed about our finances, and what we believed about our marriage.

Even before we were married, God was showing us that it was so much more than just a shallow superficial put on. Marriage is about so much more than a ring that you can flash at a coworker to make them jealous.

6. God Really has our best interests in mind.

How often I think that God just wants to get me, that He has it in for me, or wants to scold me or smite me. (Smite me Oh Mighty Smiter! -Thanks Jim Carrey )

God cares about me and I forget that easily. Yes. There is always a process, and how he gets me from point A to point B is never how I would have gotten there (9 times out of 10).

His ways always involve me growing and appreciating Him more. Plus, learning about myself and my relationships (and in this case my marriage).

Do you have a cool Wedding Story? Would you like to share? leave a comment below!

Photo courtesy Eduardo Deboni