HOW DOES GOD SEE MARRIAGE?
Part 5: The Big Question

“Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy womb . . .
Thou shalt be blessed above all people:
there shall not be male or female barren among you . . .“
(Deuteronomy 7:12-14).

We continue pondering the passage about marriage in Malachi 2 and we read a straightforward question. Here it comes: “What does God want from your union?”

We wait for the answer . . . God answers: “That he might seek a godly seed.” 

The New Living Translation says: “And what does he want?” Godly children from your union.”

The Berean Study Bible says: “Has not the LORD made them one . . . And why one? Because he seeks godly offspring.”

It is true that God ordained marriage for intimate companionship which God loves us to enjoy. He ordained the “holy estate” marriage to satisfy the sexual desires and intimate fellowship with one another. But ultimately, He ordained marriage for the brining forth 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).

Therefore, a young couple are not ready to marry if they are not prepared to embrace children. To go into marriage with a 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” reason) 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. Read that statement again! That means that if you have to stop having children to fulfil a certain ministry for God, it is not God’s plan but your own plan.

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 godly couples who will bring forth His children and train them in righteousness, justice, and godliness (Genesis 18:19). Couples who will faithfully teach them God’s ways. Couples who will pray daily for them, that they will be conformed to the image of His Son (Romans 8:29) and reveal His image in this earth.

Sadly, because the devil has been very successful in deceiving the minds of Christian parents, the world is depleted of the godly. There could have been millions more godly people in the earth, filling the land with God’s image.

Oh, may more and more of God’s people begin to understand His heart and purposes for us.

Blessings from NANCY CAMPBELL

www.aboverubies.org

PRAYER:

“Dear Father, thank You for showing me Your heart and your purpose for us on this earth. You want Your image to be revealed in the earth. Please open our hearts to be obedient to Your ways and Your will. Amen.”

AFFIRMATION: