June–The wedding month
BASIC BIBLE TRUTHS ABOUT MARRIAGE
- Marriage is of divine origin. Marriage is God’s idea not man’s. God Himself performed the first marriage ceremony in the Garden of Eden. God saw Adam and said, “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18). So He created woman and gave her to him to be his companion, his wife. Someone said, “Woman was made out of the side of Adam. Not out of his feet to be trampled upon, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, near his heart to be loved.”
- Marriage is more of a personal commitment than a civil contract. Civil contracts have escape clauses, but a spiritual commitment never has any excuse to merit dissolution. As you both gave your individual lives to Jesus Christ in faith, so now you come in faith to commit your lives to one another in marriage.
- Marriage is better understood as a process than a single act. Genesis 2:21 to 24: “So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh at that place. And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man; And the Man said, “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.” Marriage is the blending of two unique personalities in all facets of life and in circumstances of life to form a new and wonderful relationship. Marriage is not a ninety-day wonder but a lifelong process. It is one that should ever be becoming and never arriving. It takes a lifetime to build a Christian home. (to be continued…)