Heart’s Desire: Love and Marriage
Do I dig into Scripture and seek out where God dictated where one falls in love like when Jacob saw Rachel in Genesis 29:10?
Is it when God instructs us to hold off on marriage for the moment like He did in Jeremiah 16:1-2?
Is it when God tells us to marry this one like He did in Hosea 1:2?
Do I stay single like Paul in 1 Corinthians 7:8 and quote the one verse that every person who passionately desires to get married can quote in 1 Corinthians 7:9?
Do I seek out for redemption as a husband and a dad because of my failures in my first marriage? Do I seek out healing because I am torn from one flesh like in Genesis 2:24?
What is the answer?
Do I know what marriage truly is? That it is far above my happiness. That it is taking two sinners and making them live together. That it is hard work. That it is the holiness of God. That marriage is the mirror image of God.
or…
Is it that God is my everything? That He is my all in all. That He is my portion and I am wealthy beyond my wildest dreams. That I am nothing without Him. That I am not complete without Him. That only He can fill up my bottomless soul. That no other loves me like He does. That no one cares for me like He does. That no one on this earth can heal me like He does.
That my precious and loving God is most glorified in my life and in me when I am most satisfied in the Christ who is loving enough to be willing to save me and sovereign enough to have the power to save me.




