How are you going to finish school?

How are you going to get your dream job?

How are you not going to get distracted?

What are you going to do if you drop out?

These are the various questions many people think of when I say I’m 20 years old and I’m getting married in less than a month.

What I have learned, and am still learning, is that you really can’t please everyone. That would be a full-time job for sure. What I do know, is that God is always present and I have no doubts that he can get me through anything life throws at me. Yes, marriage is going to be hard. If it was easy, the divorce rate would not be so high.

That being said, the devil is also out there and will try to steal, kill and destroy anything that brings glory to God. Marriage is a gift from God, therefore it glorifies him that his people partake in that covenant and promise each other a lifetime of sacrificial love. Marriage is also a picture of how Christ loves the church.

"Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself." Ephesians 5:22-28

God sacrificed out of love for his people. That is our duty now.

"So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.” John 13:34-35

Am I too young to follow God’s calling? No. Am I going to be happy 100% of the time? Definitely not, because marriage is hard. Is the challenge worth it to me? Definitely. I know for a fact that we are never going to feel like we are ready to get married. We are never going to feel ready to start a family. However, I do know that in the end, this is God's plan, and he can get anybody through anything. Marriage is a covenant and a choice every day to sacrificially love your spouse. Act boldly in that, without fear.