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WHAT DOES GOD WANT FROM YOUR MARRIAGE?
God speaks another message to us in the Malachi 2:14-16 passage. Verse 14 asks the question: What does God want from your union? And then it tells us the answer.
Let’s read it: “And wherefore one? That he might seek as godly seed.”
God ordained marriage for intimate companionship which every one of us need to truly enjoy life.
God ordained marriage to satisfy the sexual desires He put within His creation in this “holy estate” of marriage.
But ultimately God ordained marriage for the bringing forth and training of children. We see this in the very first words God spoke into the ears of man: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28).
Let’s look at some other translations.
God’s Word translation: “Didn’t God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. And what does the same God look for but godly descendants?”
New Living Translation: “Didn’t the LORD make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his. And what does he want? Godly children from your union.”
Therefore, a young couple are not ready to marry if they are not prepared to embrace children. To go into marriage with the plan to stop children for a certain length of time is not God’s will. To stop God visiting you with His gift of life for any human reason (even “spiritual sounding” reasons) is not God’s will.
I know more than one couple who stopped having children because they were in “the ministry” and wanted to serve God. These couples have the wrong concept of God and the Bible. The perfect will of God will never negate God’s existing commandments.
God desires and looks for children from the marriage union. If we don’t want children, we have a different mindset than God. We are not in step with Him.
And it is not just children He looks for. It is “godly” children. The word is “elohim.” This is one of the names of God. The very first name of God revealed to us in His Word in Genesis 1:1.
God looks for goodly couples who will bring forth His children and who will train them, righteousness, and justice and godliness (Genesis 18:19). Who will faithfully teach them God’s ways. Who will daily pray for them that they will be conformed to the image of His Son (Romans 8:29) and reveal His image in this earth.
This is the highest purpose for marriage. When we refuse this command, we deny God. We deny His image in the world. We deny our own blessings. And we deny filling eternity.
Blessings to you today,
Nancy Campbell
