10 Biblical Answers to Modern Marriage Confusion

There’s so much about marriage we don’t know before we make that commitment. That may be because marriage is too large a concept for us to grasp, and our minds are too finite to fully understand marriage in context before we get there. More and more, our newest generation of dating adults think marriage is an institution of the past that is no longer relevant. While that idea is popular, it discounts all the biblical defenses of marriage that are sprinkled throughout the Bible. I hope that after reading on, some of your questions about marriage will be answered, and you will begin to see the value of marriage in today’s world.1. Isn’t it Just a Contract?Marriage is so much more than a contract—it’s a covenant. You may already know this, but the difference between the two is that if one person doesn’t fulfil their end of the bargain in a covenant, the other still does. That’s unlike a contract that can be nullified when one party neglects their part. Here’s a biblical example: In Genesis 15, God put Abraham to sleep when He was making a covenant with him. He did this to show that His covenant with Abraham did not depend on Abraham; it depended only on God. Even when we can’t keep our end of the covenant vows, He keeps up His end. He’s faithful even when we are not. We all know marriages that have ended, where the marriage covenant has been broken, but God didn’t intend for marriage to end that way. Marriage is a mystery that is supposed to be a model of the church’s union with Christ, who will certainly keep up his end of the covenant.Verse to Remember: 2 Timothy 2:13“If we are faithless. He is faithful. He cannot deny Himself.”Photo Credit: ©Pexels/Nghia Trinh | Written by Cantice Greene | iBelieve.com | Read full story at Read More