After the drama and excitment of The Bachelor had come to a conclusion, a patterned truth revealed itself once again in the 'After The Rose' show. The bachelor Jason had asked Melissa to marry him, yet within the six weeks following the engagement he wants to break it off citing that the Chemistry had gone, or at least 'changed'.
Out of the 13 plus seasons of this show only one couple has managed to saty together long enough to actually go through with a wedding. Good for them.
I don't know if it the fact that Jason is a weak man or just another victim of a reality show that manipulates anything that we would consider true to life, or in fact Real.
Why am I talking about this? What kind of Spiritual application can we learn from this show?
It's simple, and anyone who has been married for more than a year will understand the term 'the honeymoon period'. When you get married you go on a vacation and you learn to be one together in a romantic, carefree environment for at least a week or two. And then life hits you hard! Reality set's in.
The contestants of the Bachelor have yet to posess the longevity of sight to see and expect that the utter elation of a fantasy world for a few weeks, and the sheer harshness of every day reality, are two very different worlds.
Christians some times have this kind of problem. I refer this as the mountain experience with the valley life.
We enjoy God and his presence as it manifests so powerfully, sometimes on a Sunday morning or in a praise meeting, and then find it hard the next day to live out our Christian walks in the 'valley' of life.
We all need to live in a natural slash supernatural life with moderation and balance; and also the maturity to know that we have to face our days sometimes without feeling his close touch in our lives.
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