Rebecca St. James and her husband opened up about marriage, patience and God’s faithfulness. The Christian music artist shared how she believed for the longest time that she would never find someone to marry and how she eventually had to give that fear and struggle to God. Watch the short but powerful interview to hear Rebecca and her husband discuss their marriage and learning to rely on God and His faithfulness.
No one wants to live life by themselves. How lonely and miserable an existence would that be? Human beings are not made to be islands but are instead designed for relationships with one another. Through these interactions, these relationships, human beings help, uplift, encourage and celebrate one another. Relationships make life a much fuller and richer experience.
That’s precisely God’s design and intention for a marriage relationship. When one is down, the other is there to uplift and encourage. The other can provide healing and comfort when one is sick and suffering. Both are made better because of the other. A marriage relationship, when God is kept at the center of it, is one of life’s most incredible experiences.
In a clip posted on YouTube, Rebecca mentions how she didn’t believe she would ever get married. For the longest time, she felt God had someone specifically for her, but she started to lose hope when that person never materialized in her life. She eventually came to the point where she had to surrender that fear and worry to God.
Cubbie Fink, Rebecca’s eventual husband, was in a similar position. He started to lose hope that the person God had chosen for him was not out there. Nearing this point of throwing in the towel on love and marriage, Cubbie and Rebecca met in Los Angeles and immediately hit it off.
After falling in love and getting married, Rebecca and Cubbie encountered heartbreaking challenges regarding having children. Rebecca shared that she had experienced two miscarriages. Around this time, Cubbie also lost his job, and his mother became sick.
However, through it all, Rebecca and Cubbie put their faith and trust in God, and learned that even during those painful and heartbreaking moments, God was still at work.
“And so, learning how to trust God in the middle of that pain, learning how to pursue each other when we both felt equally low, and equally in the pain, and in the winter,” she said. “And just learning to trust that God would redeem and He would restore, and He would be faithful. I think that there was so much richness and good in the winter, but when you’re in it, it’s hard to see.”
Hebrews 10:23 “Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word.”