{"id":3515,"date":"2016-09-02T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T00:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2016-09-02T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T00:04:48","slug":"the-most-touching-words-in-a-wedding-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/p\/3515","title":{"rendered":"THE MOST TOUCHING WORDS IN A WEDDING\u2026 \u201cI DO\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By :\u00a0 Paul Lai <\/strong><\/p>\n

Translator: Wings Yeung <\/strong><\/p>\n

One day I received an e-mail which read: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>It took me a long time to finish your book, \u201cRainbow after Rain,\u201d because every time I read it, tears would come because I am so touched by it.\u00a0 I would have to stop. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It is painful to read about the daily suffering that Mrs. Lai goes through.\u00a0 I truly believe that it is because of the reliance the two of you have in God that the physical pain was bearable. Compared to Job in the Bible, the two of you are more blessed.\u00a0 Job had to face all his suffering alone as his wife did not have the same heart as him.\u00a0 She asked Job to turn his face away from God.\u00a0 But you and Mrs. Lai share each others\u2019 burden and suffering.\u00a0 Though you may not have the material reward that Job received from God, He has definitely poured His blessings out upon you two.\u00a0 And wherever your work has taken you, it has also become a blessing to believers and non believers alike. We cannot imagine the number of people who have accepted Christ because of it.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Back to myself, my life is not exciting.\u00a0 My father passed away before I was born. I have always been by myself ever since my birth.\u00a0 I do not have a place I call home.\u00a0 I never complain, nor have I felt like anything was missing.\u00a0 Looking back, I know that God has prepared everything for me.\u00a0 After working for 20 years, God has helped me make the decision to take an early retirement.\u00a0 Whenever I am in pain, I will remember the suffering that you and Mrs. Lai have been through, it will give me strength and faith to experience God.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

I read this letter, and have read her praises, but I felt horrible.\u00a0 Why did she say we are more blessed than Job?\u00a0 How can she compare us to Job!\u00a0 Then I realized that what she meant was that Job\u2019s wife and my wife are very different.\u00a0 Seeing Job\u2019s body filled with boils, Job\u2019s wife told him to leave his God and die.\u00a0 But my wife and I are able to walk together in our misery, sharing our burdens together.\u00a0 This after all is what a marriage is, and so to love each other the way we did was a most natural way for us; it was not difficult. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I remember my wife always telling me that the most touching moment in a Christian wedding is when the officiator asks, and the couple replies that together they vow \u201cfor richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish…\u201d and then saying \u201cI do\u201d. This part always touched her heart and tears would flow.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

She said that for two people with different personalities and different backgrounds to be united in God is truly a miracle, but for the two to hold onto the love \u2018til death is even more of a miracle.\u00a0 Without God\u2019s guidance or His will that the two are united, then it would not be a marriage blessed by God.\u00a0 She is right and I agree with her completely.\u00a0 This is the truth<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By :\u00a0 Paul Lai Translator: Wings Yeung One day I received an e-mail which read: \u201cIt took me a long time to finish your book, \u201cRainbow after Rain,\u201d because every time I read it, tears would come because I am so touched by it.\u00a0 I would have to stop. It is painful to read about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}