Will You Marry Me?Sample

Two Become One 

God designed earthly marriage and He blesses marriage. It was no coincidence that the first miracle Jesus performed on earth was at a wedding! Marriage gives us a physical picture to grasp onto to help us understand the intimate love relationship Jesus wants to have with us.

God formed Adam from the dust of the earth, then formed Eve from his rib. The Bible says that “for this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” What does this tell us? Adam and Eve were created to be married, united, and in full submission to one another. That was God’s design from the beginning.

Have you ever seen the reality show called “Naked and Afraid”? I haven’t either (and I don’t ever want to), but the title definitely makes me laugh. It also sums up how we often feel about intimacy with each other—and at times, with God. We’re afraid to be exposed or vulnerable.

Adam and Eve started out completely exposed to God and to each other, but they felt safe. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Not the naked in public part (ha!), but the feeling that you’re perfectly loved and don’t have to hide who you are. Before sin entered the world, Adam and Eve didn’t know or understand shame.
 

Satan, our accuser, exposes us and embarrasses us. He wants us to hide from God and feel isolated and alone in our guilt. Jesus fights for us and purifies us to cover our shame. He wants us to be completely vulnerable and safe with Him. 

This physical picture of marriage mirrors our spiritual relationship with Christ. When we get married in this life, we’re bound together with our husbands and become one flesh. We’re joined together physically in the most intimate act of sex, and we’re joined emotionally as we lean on one another and battle through the ups and downs of life together. 

As the bride of Jesus, our spiritual intimacy with Him won’t be a sexual union. But like the act of sex, we’ll reach full spiritual intimacy with Christ. We’ll be completely “naked” before Him and feel no shame. Our union in the physical mirrors our union with Christ in the spiritual. 

In Jesus, we’re completely accepted and loved. Our marriages here on earth are stained with sin, and as a result of living in a fallen world, we experience pain and heartache, even in the happiest of unions. 

In our spiritual glorified bodies, though, there will be no sin to stain our relationship with Jesus. We’ll be presented to Him as a pure bride, washed completely clean of sin. It’ll be better than any love we’ve ever known. 

To sum it all up, we see the first example of a marriage relationship in Adam and Eve. The two become one flesh, and they were naked and unashamed. But when sin entered the world, they felt ashamed and exposed. 

God clothed Adam and Eve with flesh, just as Jesus clothes us with robes of righteousness, our wedding garments. Now, we await the hour when we’ll meet our bridegroom face to face as husband and wife. What a moment that will be!