Together

Today is a momentous occasion. Travis and Tiffany are vowing themselves to each other and thereby entering into God’s estate of holy matrimony. That is to say, they are getting married. And this is a good and God-pleasing thing. God delights in marriage.

The first social institution God created was marriage; it even predates the fall into sin, as our reading from Genesis chapter 2 reminds us. Our Lord Jesus, who is Himself God in the flesh, worked His first miracle in support of a wedding feast in Cana. And throughout the Scriptures, marriage is spoken of in reverent and joyful tones.

All of this is to say something rather simple: God delights when people receive and enjoy His good gifts. This is, in fact, His preferred way of dealing with us. He does not demand that we climb our way up to Him; rather, He relates to us by giving His good gifts freely. Today, we focus on one of those gifts: marriage.