There is such a thing as a loveless marriage where two experience the reality of marriage, but no longer enjoy its blessings. Many of us have seen them. Some, sadly, experience them. No one wants them.

A similar danger lurks for those in Christ.

Wendell P. Loveless spots it, and its cure, beautifully:

One observes some marriage where the is union, but apparently very little, if any, communion.

We fear this difference is all too apparent in the case of some true children of God. When they received Christ as Savior and were born again by grace through faith, there was an instant and eternal union—they were joined to Christ in a welded union which can never be dissolved during time or eternity.

And yet, while this is gloriously true as a positional relationships, there may be little real heart communion, little genuine appreciation of the lovely Person of our Lord, little time spent in personal and loving fellowship.

It is wondrously true that the believer’s union with Christ can never be annulled. There is eternal guarantee in God’s Word for that. But it is also sadly true that communion may be broken. And when it is broken there is an interruption of joy, peace, fellowship, and fruitfulness in service.

The design of (the gospel) is to set forth the wondrous fact of union and the resultant blessings of communion.

The key to it all is a Person—the altogether lovely Lord Jesus, the heavenly Bridegroom who loves His own with an everlasting love, and woos His loved one with a persistence and patience so characteristic of Himself.

(Christ & the Believer in the Song of Songs, p. 14-15)

Believer, if you’ve repentant faith in Christ as Savior and Lord, fear not your position in Him, but do examine your pleasure in Him.

Do you have union without the blessings of communion? Have you “abandoned the love you had at first” (Rev. 2:4)? If so, go to Him now with this one prayer, “Lord, help me see you as you are. Rid me of anything that I’ve allowed to stand between us. You’ve saved me by your blood and, now, satisfy my heart with your glory and love.”