My Husband was a Proxy

I know that my dependence on Rick as my husband was right. I knew that he had authority over me, and that I was to submit to him. I knew that he would protect me, that he respected me, and that he loved me.

In reading Heaven by Randy Alcorn, I began contemplating the idea of marriage in heaven. Alcorn suggested that “one marriage—our marriage to Christ—will be so completely satisfying that even the most wonderful earthly marriage couldn’t be as fulfilling” (p. 350). I realized that marriage on earth is like a practice, a foreshadowing for the one true marriage. I am, after all, part of the Bride of Christ.

In this way, then, Rick was a kind of proxy for Jesus while he was here. Our marriage was a kind of practice or early model of what was to come. My dependence on Rick was normal and right, but in his absence that dependence needs to transfer to Jesus as my ultimate husband while I wait to join Him in heaven.

“For your Maker is your husband— the LORD Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth” (Isaiah 54:5).