The Foundation of Society

C.S. Lewis observed, “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only—and that is to support the ultimate career.”

Indeed, the art of wooing between a man and a woman; marrying, learning to love, birthing, training children in a nurturing way ’til death do us part, is the central import of marriage. Civilization depends on it.

In the Bible the command to love, to bind man and woman together in lifelong matrimony, is older than government, older than church.

Things that corrode marriage are considered sins—lust, rape, adultery, divorce, perversions.

Consider: history began in Eden with a wedding between Adam and Eve. Jesus launched His public ministry at a wedding in Cana where He worked His miracle by turning water into wine. Afterwards He began to refer to Himself as a groom, the church His bride. And Scripture teaches history will end with a marriage, the Lamb’s Supper described in Revelation 19.

A building made of bricks is solid so long as the integrity of each brick is sound. But if enough bricks crack, that building will fall in. Likewise, the building blocks of society are in marriage, babies, and training. If enough homes crack, that society cannot long endure.

Martin Luther, the great reformer, wrote so 500 years ago, “What is a city but a collection of homes? And where husband and wife fail to rule well, no prince himself can peacefully rule.”

God ordained marriage. It is our obedience to live within the boundaries He set. To hate marriage, to tamper sinfully with what He has ordained, is to incur His wrath. And the consequences are dire in this life and the world to come.

Ah, but to obey Him is to know an earlier heaven. For if God made anything better than a marriage of man and woman, He kept it for Himself in heaven.