What Marriage Pictures

Marriage imperfectly points to something perfect. Ephesians 5:22-33 is life altering stuff. Marriage is a picture of something bigger: Christ and the Church.  Jesus is known as the Bridegroom and the Church the Bride of Christ.  For a marriage to work and please God  the husband must be like Christ and the wife must be like the church.  Different roles under God. What did Christ do? What did the Church do? The husband must lovingly initiate sacrifice and the wife must humbly receive as then enter in to a life of mutual submission to Christ. The relationship is permanent. The bond is not to be broken. It is like Christ and the Church. This is why there is no marriage in heaven. Earthly marriage will one day give way to what it pointed to all along. Jesus loves you and have Himself for you.