What does the God of the Bible say about Marriage?

Our society today is at a point where it has decided that marriage can be between anyone or almost anything as long as the two objects involved are in "love" with each other.  But the God of the Bible has a different view.  When He made Adam and Eve God set the biblical standard for what marriage looks like.  Marriage is made between man and woman because God is looking for a relationship that provides a standard which will be able to reproduce after His kind.

When looking at a majority of the other types of relationships that people want to be united to we see that they are not able to reproduce after their "kind" in a biological manner.  God wants relationship with us.  He wants children who follow after His ways and methods.  When living outside of His intentions for what marriage is suppose to be His standards get perverted and lost in a world who just wants to rebel against Him and thus we have a society which tries to define love in any way it feels is best for itself.

This is why there are so many broken marriages, gay marriages, and the like.  People want to define and shape what they feel love is not by the One who gave us His love, but by their own selfish desires.  The Bible declares that God is love.  But their are boundaries and standards for that love and that includes the biblical standard of marriage between a man and a woman.  When a person says they love someone but their is no commitment that is not love.  So many of our young people are afraid to commit their love to another person of the opposite sex because they are afraid that it won't work out. They rather "shack up".  They have witnessed a lack of commitment to love and so they don't know how to carry it out for themselves.   Love is not a feeling. It does not come and go.  It is a commitment which Christ showed us in that when we were yet sinners He died for us.  Even now He holds out His hand to us wanting to love Him back, though His love for you and me never has stopped.  The same should be true in marriage.  There will be difficulties and there will be failures but when one makes that commitment to love that other person than it will endure because if God is in the midst of it than the bond will be most difficult to break. 

So if you are someone who is not sure what love looks like I suggest that you get to know the God of the Bible.  Read the gospel of John and see what Christ says love is.  For once we understand His love for us than we will know how to love others and this includes what a true marriage looks like.  For after all He wants to be married to you.  And as He teaches you about Himself you will than be able to reflect that love into the marriage that He intends for you to have with the person He has called you to spend your life with.