Wallpaper

I've spent the last two days taking down a wallpaper border my husband and I put up ten years ago or so. We put it up to last. When I called our local paint store to let them know I was having a terrible time getting the border off she asked if we had put glue on the wall in addition to soaking the wallpaper. I said I thought we had. She assured me we had cemented it on, and it would take great pains to get it off. She was right.
God intended certain things to last in our lives, too. He intended to cement us to Himself, so that our sin, our guilt, and the world's temptations wouldn't pull us from Him. God intended our marriages to last. He intended that our spouse and us and Him would become a cord wound tightly together that would not easily unravel. He intends for us to live with Him, forever, in eternity. Our fate, with our faith in His son Jesus Christ, is cemented, and no one can tear that away from us.
I'll go back to my wallpaper now, remembering how great God's love is.