What's Marriage All About?

This week has been an inspiring week with lots of new information to consider in regards to marriage. I really enjoyed Dr. H Wallace Goddard’s book Drawing Heaven into Your Marriage. There were so many wonderful insights that were pointed out about how I can be a better wife and help my husband know how much I really love and care about him. We have had a pretty good relationship throughout our six years of marriage. We haven’t had any huge disputes or anything, but we have had a few setbacks because of our pride or our own desires getting in the way. As I read the final chapter, conclusion, and epilogue in Dr. Goddard’s book I was able to feel so much more love for my husband. He also touched on what the Lord’s purpose for marriage is. I loved it…

“It seems that God’s objective for marriage is not merely to provide us with companionship through the treacherous journey of mortality- though it often does that wonderfully well. Marriage is not merely for populating the world- though it can accomplish that. God has loftier purposes. He wants to make us like Him. Phew! Like Him! Unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. (Ephesians 4:13)”

Why did this touch me so much? Maybe because I hadn’t stopped to think about how my marriage would make me more like Him before. This helped me realize that God loves each of us so much that He sent us here and gave us companions, our best friends, to go through this crazy journey with us all to help us grow to become like Him.

The next time you think about your marriage, I hope you’ll stop and ask yourself am I becoming like God or am I becoming like someone else? If you’re not becoming like or drawing closer to God, then you might need to consider applying some of Dr. Wallace’s principles to your own marriage. As you study and work to draw closer to your spouse, you will also draw closer to the Lord, whom we are trying to return to and to become like. How awesome that we will fulfill both roles as we work to draw closer to one!