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“I Would Do It All Over Again”
I Would Do It All Over Again
Wade Webster
Winston Churchill’s wife was named Clementine. He affectionately called her Clemmie.
Churchill wasn’t generally considered handsome. He wasn’t athletic. He wasn’t rich. He wasn’t the young man that most moms were dreaming of for their daughters. Clementine’s mother, Lady Blanche Hozier, wasn’t overjoyed at the thought of her daughter marrying Winston. But, despite Winston’s many shortcomings, he possessed the one essential ingredient needed to make marriage work - love. He loved Clementine.
At a banquet late in life, Churchill was once asked, “If you could come back as anyone after you die, who would it be?” He thought for a moment, stood, turned to his wife, and said, “Mrs. Churchill’s second husband.“
I’m sure that Winston got some major brownie points for that. History records that those weren’t just empty words. He deeply loved Clementine. They were happily married for 57 years.
I hope that all of us might say the same thing about our mates, not just physically, but spiritually. If we could come back and do life again, I am sure that we would make many changes. However, there is one thing that we would not change - being married to Christ. Marrying Christ is the best decision that we ever made.
Paul wrote, “Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God” (Romans 7:1-4).
Jesus couldn’t have loved us more than He did. Again, Paul wrote, “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. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband” (Ephesians 5:25-33).
We enjoy such a good life with Jesus now and the future promises even greater blessings. In Matthew, we read, “Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?” So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life” (Matthew 19:27-29).
If we could do life over again, marrying Christ is one thing that we wouldn’t change. If you are not a Christian, then I highly recommend becoming one. You will never regret marrying Christ. Every imaginable blessing is found in Him (Eph. 1:3).
