No other human relationship is quite like the bond of marriage. Children are adopted or born into a family, but marriage partners willingly choose to commit to each other. Knowing the other person’s strengths as well as weaknesses, they nonetheless determine to journey through life exclusively with another person. And no one makes that decision temporarily; all marriage commitments start with the intent to last for life.
That’s one of the reasons why the Bible sometimes uses the marital relationship to illustrate our relationship with God. It’s a close relationship that’s designed to last forever.
God doesn’t want to be on-again, off-again with us. Neither does God ever waver in his faithfulness toward us. Instead, God consistently pursues after us with deep, everlasting love. Sometimes human relationships are strained even to the breaking point, but God’s love never fails.
Blessings, Pastor Paul Cook