By following God’s plan for marriage-loving, honoring, and remaining faithful to each other-we will have success in honoring him. When we stand at the altar exchanging wedding vows, we’re essentially agreeing to erect a temple in which to honor God. Marriage is like a temple-a magnificent living, breathing house for the Lord.

Likewise we, too, need to take great care in preparing for the construction of a marriage. Then David told Solomon that if he was careful to observe the laws of the Lord, he would have success. David had spent countless hours collecting and preparing all of the materials his son would need to build a house worthy of the Lord. Why do so many of us enter into this “foolish and profound” commitment when we realize that it is such a difficult thing to unify two separate individuals? Why do we assume we will have success when we know that others fail?īefore his death, David shared his vision for building a temple for the Lord with his son Solomon, to whom God had entrusted this sacred task. There is nothing else we might choose to do that is quite like this act, nothing so foolish or so profound.” It’s a promise made despite the certainty of death, the certainty of change, and the uncertainty of everything else. “It’s the promise of two human beings to share life together on all levels, physical, economic, and spiritual. “Marriage is a most remarkable and courageous human act,” says Ernest Boyer in A Way in the World (HarperSanFrancisco, 1984). Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the LORD gave Moses for Israel.

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