Created

So, I hadn't planned on writing about this topic; however, when I went to yahoo.com, I read an article. There is a German politician, Gabriele Pauli, who wants all marriages to be dissolved after seven years. She has one major reason for advocating such a position: she claims that many people remain in marriages just because they feel "safe."

It is becoming absurd that we are wanting to dissolve marriages after seven years. We need to get back in touch with who we were created to be.

The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He has taken from the man, and 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, Because she was taken out of Man." For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. -- Genesis 2:22-24

Here we read about who man and woman were created to be and what marriage is really supposed to look like. How can we possibly advocate the dissolution of marriage after seven years if, when we marry, we become on flesh with our spouse?

Let's think about this for a second. So right now I kind of want to see. I think that vision is pretty cool, as do most people I think. Don't get me wrong, there are things that I most certainly would not want to see, but all-in-all, I really like being able to see.

I can almost guarantee that seven years from now I am still really going to like to see. I think that my passion for seeing won't die. Now, this is my own flesh, I like it, I like to see it flourish, I like to have it. This is what marriage is supposed to be like. We are to value our spouse in the same way that we value our eyes and our vision.

If we are able to recapture this belief of marriage, we won't have people like Pauli advocating its dissolution. We need to recognize it as an awesome covenant that is given to us by God.

We were created to be in these relationships. We are created imago Dei (see Gen. 1:26-28), who is in perfect relationships within the Trinity. We are created with that same need and desire for relationships. We are created to be relational beings.