The following student report was submitted by Ambassador League Agent Colleen H. during the 2007-2008 League.
Biblical Research on "Sanctity of Marriage"
Marriage is one of the most special gifts that God has given to mankind. I recently attended a wedding of one of my very good friends. But this was more than just a regular wedding. In this wedding, God was the center of everything. Everything from the ceremony to the reception was focused on God. At the wedding, I learned what marriages really should be about. When two people get married, it should be about commitment, a pure love for God, and a desire to live for Him.
Mark 10:7-9 - "This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together."
Marriage is a life-long commitment. There is no going back once you make the promise to always love each other. Unfortunately, in our day, many people give up when times get tough. At the wedding that I recently went to, instead of having a unity candle, the couple each had a container of sand. They had two different colors, and during the ceremony, they poured them together into one vase. The finished produce was a beautiful vase filled with pink and blue sand. The point of this was, that when you commit your life to someone, there is no going back. Just as you cannot go through, and separate the two different colored grains of sand, your two lives cannot be separated.
1 John 4:18 - "We love because he first loved us."
Our first and greatest commandment from our Lord and Savior is to love Him with everything we have. This includes our marriage. Jesus needs to be the center of it. Our love for others needs to revolve our love for Him. Christ showed us the perfect example of love for us. He gave of Himself as a sacrifice for us. Not because we had done anything right, but because of his great love for us. He also commanded us to love one another in the same way He has loved us.
Matthew 22:37 - "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment."
At my friends' wedding, they announced to everyone their reason for getting married. Their main reason was not because they were so in love with each other, they wanted to have kids, or they thought the other person was attractive. They got married for the purpose of serving God. They both believe that they could serve God better together, than they could separately. I think that everyone needs to learn something from this. When you get married, you still need to love God more than your spouse. That is when your relationship will last a lifetime.
When two people get married, it should be about commitment, a pure love for God, and a desire to live for Him. Basically, our entire life needs to be focused on God, and this includes our marriages. Only when we have a strong desire to get to know Him better, will our relationships last, just as God intended.
