God created man and he created woman to be a partner for the man. God endowed them with many gifts they were to use to bring forth morally healthy children into the world. God has instituted marriage to be the union between a man and a woman who then through their love for each other and for God bring forth objects of their love − children. Only in the union of marriage between a man and a woman who understand what love is, as a gift from God, can children have the greatest chance of being brought into this world as good and loving citizens.
Especially in these times we see many unions between a man and a woman but not in marriage. Such unions can certainly bring forth children who become good citizens, but the element that is missing is the presence of God and his blessings of marriage; if such marriages are too great in number, without belief in God and his blessings, eventually harm to society can result. When a woman and man marry according to God’d design they call upon God as a helper for not only bringing forth children but bringing up their children to love God so that they in turn bring into the world love as it truly is.
To understand what true love really is we have only to bring to mind the death of Jesus Christ on the cross which was a sacrifice of the son of God to free us all from the horrors of sin brought into the world by the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which sin was nothing more than the desire of Adam and Eve to possess an object which was forbidden to them by God. True love then is a sacrifice or giving of ourselves, along with the giving of our God-given gifts, to another person without any expectation of personal gain; true love can never be an act of wanting to possess someone or something.
So, even in marriage, if the man or the woman or perhaps both desire to possess qualities or gifts of the other, then true love has been left out of the marriage and the possibility of failure is high. When a man and woman truly love each other, their desire is to sacrifice of themselves for the other in order to accomplish God’s plan of procreation. Sometimes the couple may not be able, through some biological defect, to have their own children; if they have true love for each other there is a desire to raise the children of others through adoption.
In our present times many marriages end in divorce; if we were to examine such cases, it is probably, more often than not, found that one or both of the partners in the marriage desire to possess things and lack the spirit of self-sacrifice for the good of the other as God has planned. Think of Hollywood marriages where the guy claims: “ I’ve got the hottest woman of anyone”
The major cause of the troubles of our times is the rejection of God, Creator and Redeemer, which makes it impossible for men and women to truly understand what love is as a giving of oneself to another; they more likely desire possession of another or possession of material wealth over a giving of oneself to another. There is a greater possibility for marriages to fail if God is not brought into the union. Unions outside of marriage have a much greater risk of failure certainly without God’s help and with a possessiveness replacing love; such unions whose partners do not desire children only frustrate God’s plan for the happiness of the partners.
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