He Pulled Out a Ring

 This afternoon as I scrolled through social media, a small reel of Taylor Swift singing "Love Story" played. A couple verses grabbed my attention and made me spend a great amount of time thinking about the ultimate Love Story. Ours! 

The lyrics go: "He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said, "Marry me, Juliet You'll never have to be alone" (I bet you just sang that as she does in your head ;) tehehe) 

The first lyric that arrested my attention was "you'll never have to be alone". Immediately I thought if only we all could know that we really don't ever have to be alone. God is is the first and most faithful and trustworthy invitation that we never have to be alone. See he sticks closer than a brother. He never leaves or forsakes us. He is always with us. Always....then it really hit me!

See I then meditated on "he pulled out a ring". I thought about it for a second and I thought what/where is the ring? We are his betrothed...this love story only matches and lines up with a ring right?!? Then the vision of a keyring, THE keyring, painted the full focus of my mind and it can still bring me to tears. Do you know which keyring I reference?? The one that holds three keys: to Death, Hell, and the Grave!! Honestly, what ring could ever now compare! The lavishness of the invitation, the promises made with his proposal! 

Then when I looked up these lyrics the plot thickened in the prelude to our meet que. See "He knelt to the ground"! He fell under the weight of the cross, he asked for the cup to pass from him, he was crushed for us, he was bruised and broken. He knelt to the ground after he humbly came down from his throne in heaven specifically to court us in the most extravagant way and to become our betrothed. He is the bridegroom. We are the bride!

It was also only as I looked up the lyrics to type them here correctly that I actually remembered the title of this song "Love Story" or discovered further that the theme is about an invitation to "just say yes".  

All of the promises of his proposal, the depth of his commitment to our marriage, the extravagant love that offers the invitation....needs only for us to just say yes! 

So simple. So profound!