Is your marriage living for the glory of God? This little word "together for God's glory" means that there is an order of priority. There is an order of ultimacy. And the order is plain: God is ultimate and marriage is not. God is the most important Reality; marriage is less important — far less important, infinitely less important. Marriage exists to magnify the truth and worth and beauty and greatness of God; God does not exist to magnify marriage. Until this order is vivid and valued — until it is seen and savored — marriage will not be experienced as a revelation of God's glory but as a rival of God's glory.
Why does marriage exist? Why do we live in marriages? They exist to and for the glory of God. That is, they exist to magnify the truth, worth, beauty and greatness of God.
God is unimaginably great and infinitely valuable and unsurpassed in beauty. "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable" (Psalm 145:3). Everything that exists is meant to magnify that Reality. God cries out through the prophet Isaiah (43:6–7), "Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory".
We have been created to display the glory of God. Paul concludes the first eleven chapters of his great letter to the Romans with the exaltation of God as the source and end of all things: "For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen" (11:36). He makes it even clearer in Colossians 1:16, where he says, "By [Christ] all things were created, in heaven and on earth . . . all things (including marriage) were created through him and for him". Beloved, is your relationship and marriage revealing the glory and beauty of God? Or is it a rival of God's glory where there is premarital sex, cheating, adultery, fighting, nagging and other overt sins?
God is unimaginably great and infinitely valuable and unsurpassed in beauty. "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable" (Psalm 145:3). Everything that exists is meant to magnify that Reality. God cries out through the prophet Isaiah (43:6–7), "Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory".
We have been created to display the glory of God. Paul concludes the first eleven chapters of his great letter to the Romans with the exaltation of God as the source and end of all things: "For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen" (11:36). He makes it even clearer in Colossians 1:16, where he says, "By [Christ] all things were created, in heaven and on earth . . . all things (including marriage) were created through him and for him". Beloved, is your relationship and marriage revealing the glory and beauty of God? Or is it a rival of God's glory where there is premarital sex, cheating, adultery, fighting, nagging and other overt sins?
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