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What Your Marriage Says About God (For Better or Worse) · Doing Marriage Well

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  Doing Marriage Well for August 4, 2026 What Your Marriage Says About God,
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  For Better or Worse Another reason God created marriage, or at least something
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  seen throughout the Bible, is to help us understand His relationship with us.
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  Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel all describe God as the husband of Israel.
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  In the New Testament, Jesus is called the bridegroom of the church,
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  and the church is called the bride of Christ.
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  And the Bible ends with the wedding supper of the Lamb. The analogy extends
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  to sexuality Multiple times in the Old Testament, worshipping other gods is likened to adultery,
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  In Ephesians 5, the Apostle Paul links marriage and the sexual one-flesh union
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  to the mystical, spiritual union between Christ and the Church calling it a profound mystery,
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  This analogy means a couple of things for us First, a bad marriage is a bad
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  witness If marriage is supposed to show how God cares for us,
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  a bad marriage reflects poorly on God,
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  If folks who go to church had much better marriages than folks who do not,
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  it would be far easier to get people to come to the Lord.
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  Statistically, Christian marriages
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  are better, but it's not enough of a difference for most people to see.
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  The analogy was created to help us understand our relationship with God,
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  but it can also help us understand how we should be with our spouse.
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  A husband abusing his wife is like Jesus abusing us. The silent treatment is
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  like the Holy Spirit refusing to communicate with us.
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  Being too busy for our spouse is like being too busy for God.
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  And sexual refusal is like refusing to worship God.
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  Does your marriage make God look good? What should you change to improve that?
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  This is Paul, and doing marriage well will preach.