The promises you’ll make in a moment are utterly open-ended. You can’t be sure what will happen later today, much less for the rest of your life. You can take these vows confidently only if you entrust yourselves to the God who is Alpha and Omega, the God who is before every past and waiting ahead of every future.
To live by faith is to live by prayer. Every time you pray, you confess that you don’t have what it takes, and that God does. You confess that you can’t see what’s ahead, and that God can. Every prayer is a confession of inadequacy and need. Since we are needy for everything at every moment, prayer should be as regular as breath.
As you commit yourselves to one another, commit also to continue steadfast in prayer. Pray to be a faithful husband, a faithful wife. Pray for generosity in plenty, contentment in want. Commit yourselves to pray in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and health. Pray in life, and in the hour of death. Drench, drown, immerse and inundate your marriage with prayer.
Pray as often as you have need. Which is to say, Pray without ceasing.
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