My wife and I recently decided to go through a marriage series together. We started on the first of several messages on marriage from John Piper.
The first in the series is called, “Staying Married is not about Staying in Love.”
John starts off with the idea that not only do we have a misconception of what marriage is, but that without divine revelations and the illumining work of the Holy Spirit, we cannot understand God’s design for marriage.
Wow! I had never really thought of it that way.
People all over the world have been getting married, but I never stopped to think that we cannot truly understand what marriage is all about without God revealing it to us. We can get married, have a good relationship, raise a family, but without God showing us, we cannot, and do not have the ability to, know what this marriage thing is all about. Why is it that:
The natural man does not have the capacities to see or receive or feel the wonder of what God has designed for marriage to be.