Through the lens of Young married
Circumcision and the visit at Mamre
There is a small detail in Genesis 18 worth carrying into your marriage. Three visitors arrived. Abraham and Sarah dropped everything to welcome them.
A marriage that hosts well is one of the most powerful witnesses in the world. Not Pinterest hosting. Not perfect-house hosting. I see you, I have time for you, sit at our table hosting. The kind of hosting that gives strangers and friends a glimpse of the Father.
Hospitality is setting the table for the people who matter most. And in the early years of marriage, the people who matter most often shift. There are seasons it is just you two. Seasons it is a few close friends. Seasons it is a hurting neighbor. The table keeps changing shape.
The thing the Father seems to want, every season, is a marriage that has a table — and that the door is open to whoever the Father might walk in disguised as. Genesis 18 says it could be God himself.
One small thing this week: invite one person — neighbor, friend, someone in a hard season — to your actual table. Not for a project. Just to eat. See who walks in.