How easy is it to detach our marriages from the finished work of Christ?
Very easy.
Tragically easy.
This may be due to living in a society where marriage is ever pressed into molds defined by the increasing unbelief around us, rather than biblical revelation. The very definition of marriage in our day has increasingly taken the feel of Play-Doh, all squishy and moldable in political debates and water-cooler conversations.
But no redefinition of marriage can touch the ultimate reality of God’s design. God has chosen to weave marriages — our marriages — into the most profound theological realities this universe has ever seen. To enter into a Christian marriage is to enter into the drama of Christ’s cosmos-altering victory.
But do our marriages reflect this? Does my own marriage reflect this?
Continue reading – Marriage in the Cosmic Plan of God – Desiring God.