This week millions of Christians around the world are beginning a 13-week series of Bible studies into marriage, studying some Bible marriages that were happy (few!), and others that exhibited problems. The series will culminate in #13, devoted to “the marriage of the Lamb.”
Our infinite heavenly Father looks with kindness and mercy on the many people who suffer unhappiness in marriage; He also looks with the same grace on those who long to get married and experience the love of a spouse, but cannot. All should “rest in the Lord” (Psalm 37, please re-read the entire psalm), and let Him encourage you.
One can be terribly lonely in an unhappy marriage; Adam was very lonely before the Lord brought Eve to him. His loneliness would have been impossible to assuage. But the infinite Creator performed a surgery to fulfill His ministry of mercy.
Drink in Psalm 37 and let Him bring you “the ministry of healing.”
We read of one man who had been forced to be castrated in the cruelty of war (the prophet Daniel) who was in a special sense “greatly beloved” of heaven ( 10:11). The man who was bereft of earthly or human love was granted the love of heavenly beings; you can be sure that his heart thrilled with this “companionship.” But such “love” from heavenly beings did not make him in any sense arrogant; although no human loved him as a wife would love a husband, he loved people with heaven’s disinterested love.
And he was happy—which married people long to be!
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