The Glory of God and the institution of marriage.

And the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him”. Gen 2:18 
In the dispensation of innocence, God made man and kept him in the Garden of Eden. It was a place of divine companionship as well as of abundance. Even at that time we read, Adam was lonely. So, God had to provide him with a suitable helpmate like him to overcome his loneliness. Therefore God has instituted the act of marriage in the humanity between a man and his wife to remain faithful till death separates them.

The design of marriage is according to the plan and will of God alone. No man or angel has a part in intuiting it. It is God alone who has said, “It is not good that man should be alone”. To avoid loneliness, marriage is the only way God provided to mankind. The Psalmist says, “God setteth the solitary in families.” Psalms 68: 6. Till one finds the other half, who is our equal in love and commitment, his or her heart remains solitary. Any amount of devotion to God or anything else can never deliver from this horrible and pitiable state. Remember, even after finding the right person, still we are not perfect. Though we remain imperfect until death, by correcting and caring one each other in mercy, love, and grace we will continue to show God’s glory through our families.   

It is God who selects and unites two individual Personalities - a man and a woman – to live together, in the unity of personalities, till He separates them. The purpose of this union is to show forth the fellowship and joy within the divine Trinity, by their mutual commitment and faithfulness, in this world, so that the world will see the work of the Triune God and glorify Him. It is the main purpose of God intuiting the act of Marriage.

This is the main reason why Satan always wants to destroy this divine institution. When disagreement and divorce happen because of personality conflicts, we ourselves are playing into the hands of the devil, thus mocking God.

As mentioned afore, the purpose of marriage is to glorify God, through our love and unity. This is possible only when the husband and the wife unite as one personality. To attain this oneness of personality we must know in fact what personality is. Remember, it is our personality that helps us to act. All our actions are because of our knowledge, feeling, and desire. Before marriage both man and woman are two different individuals with two different kinds of knowledge, feeling, and desire. Hence they are two different personalities. They are brought up in different homes, culture, society, and environment. They are totally different in their thoughts, words, and deeds because of their cultural differences.

Any amount of manual effort for joining a man and a woman into one can never yield any fruit. Neither any non-living thing like the thali, mala (chain), mangalsuthra, ring or anything in the world can unite two living souls or spirits. Only the Living God can unite them and transform them as one personality, though they remain two different individual persons till the end.

As said before, our knowledge feelings and desire are different. This is the cause of personality conflicts, resulting in various problems, fights, or even divorce in society. To have a perfectly peaceful life we must attain unity of personality. The basic peace in humanity has to begin with the family. When families are at peace, the society attains peace, the nation attains peace, and the world will get the peace what it is seeking after.

We can find the perfect love, peace and unity only in the Trinity. We know the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are in perfect peace and harmony and love. This is because of the oneness in their knowledge, feeling and desire.

The only way to attain this unity of personality is by proper communication. In the present world, the devil has used various ways to corrupt human communication. He gave us more misinformation than information. This is the real cause of personality conflicts. Today we have the internet, television channels, mobile phones, and various other means of mass communication and personal communication. But the truth is no one understands the other, as the old Babel tragedy. 

Husbands and wife might sleep on one bed, they may even have physical relationship, but their personalities remain continents apart. They are not able to understand one another. This is the miserable condition of the present world.

The devil has destroyed many families, by spreading misinformation, which caused doubts and the end result thereof. Because of it, the world, the families, and the society are suffering and ultimately the children are the final losers. We cannot let this go on forever. We need to change.

The religions, philosophies, and culture are in one way or the other injecting misinformation to our minds. The biggest war we face today is the war for the minds of man. The saying is, “He who controls the minds, controls the man”. To have control over us, the devil will lead us around the truth but never to the Truth.

Religions or politics cannot help. It is actually here the importance of God comes. But to which God should we turn?

We must seek the God who is our Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, Judge, and the Giver of the Moral Law. Remember, God is not a power. He alone has perfect knowledge, feeling, and desire, Yes, God is a Person. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, three Persons, yet only One God.Three Persons yet in perfect love and unity and oneness of Personality. Displaying all His attributes yet as One True God. It is the majesty of His unity in Triunity. He alone can join a man and a woman into the oneness of personality.

He alone can save our families. He alone can unite us.

Unto Him be the Glory forever and ever.

Amen