The Importance of Marriage
God instituted marriage before any other institutions because He knew how important it was going to be for society to flourish as it should. He knew that it was not good for man to be alone. He knew he needed a help-meet to complete him, so he made woman to compliment the man. Then, he ordained for a man to leave his parents and to cling to his wife, becoming one flesh and having the closest possible human relationship. This is God's design, except for those who have the gift of being single. King Jehoram's life shows us how marrying the wrong person can destroy a family and even a nation. (II Kings 8:18) He became king of Judah after his father, the righteous king, Jehoshaphat died. For some reason he married the daughter of Ahab, the evil king of Israel, and that caused him to be as wicked as Ahab had been. This led him to miss God's blessings for him and for Judah. We all need to learn from this. Today we have a world that doesn't think marriage is important. We hav...