That's Why

Genesis 2 cont’d:

Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

What a beautiful picture here of God and his creation, his loving care and attention, and his awesome order of father and mother as one.

God presented woman to man and the man took her as his own, knowing she was taken from his side, to be united with him in one flesh.

It’s a mystery isn’t it, how husband and wife are to become one flesh, but they are.  And yet guys and girls become one flesh over and over again with multiple partners, giving away a part of their soul to each.  It’s no wonder then that when marriage takes place in a ceremony, there are pieces and fragments of themselves scattered about, and the marriage suffers from the get-go.

There’s something so holy and sacred about a union between man and woman that is pure and undiluted from prior unions.

However…even in our sin and fallen state of lust and desire, God takes what we’ve broken and makes it whole.  He fulfills our wildest desires when we bring him that which we’ve fragmented by giving away to many others, and he makes it whole again and like new.

Marriage is sacred and holy and a beautiful thing from God.  He made it that way, as a symbol of the beauty in union with Him. 

Give your marriage, broken or whole, to Him, and let him heal you and bless you, and cause you to walk in oneness with Him…and with each other.