wedding ring: John 15

When Tim and I were married, we purchased a cheap wedding ring at a closeout sale of a jewelry store featuring urban style jewelry. It was a nice looking ring, but it wasn't good quality, and one of the diamonds fell out and it didn't fit right, etc. Needless to say, I've been looking for a real ring for a while. I finally found one last week!

It's made from a mold of an old ring from the early 1900s and is in the art nouveau style. The reason I chose it was because of its design of grapes and vines. Grapes and vines are symbols in one of my favorite Bible passages in John 15, which says:

“I [Jesus] am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing [...] This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples."

So now when I look at my ring, I can dwell on this message of forever being faithful to Jesus.