God has made us all with hormones that kick in around the teenage years. In fact, that is the essence of what life is all about – reaching that level of knowledge and building character. It seems to take a lifetime to “get it all together” and then when we seem to have made real progress, life is about to end.

We all know that we humans are imperfect and usually come into marriage with a lot (or a few) mistakes as well as gaps in our character. Now that we can see the importance of this marvellous institution that holy matrimony is intended to be, let us take a look at some of the realities of life. The eternal lessons are derived from the parallels that marriage makes with the ultimate relationship of mankind and God (Ephesians 5:30-33). Not only are humans happier when they work toward a family relationship that is godly, but children (who take the better part of two decades to reach adulthood) need the stability of a home with mom and dad to have the best chance of becoming mature and responsible adults. There are eternal lessons to be learned in this holy union. In Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus Christ referred to the potential for happiness within marriage that God gave. (By the way, when a rib is carefully removed from the human body, it regrows perfectly, so Adam was not “ribless” the rest of his life.) God then showed us the wonderful potential of a marriage by inspiring the words of their union in Genesis 2:21-25. Our loving Creator made us male and female and stated that this was good (Genesis 1:27-31).

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