As we open to Ephesians 5, think about the end of Creation Week, as God looked over the entire scope of the Universe He fashioned, only one element was ānot goodā. It was a man. Adam was alone, and God said that wasnāt good.
So God crowned the six stellar days of creation with Eve, the perfect partner and friend for Adam. When God designed marriage, it was to perfectly complete those He had fashioned in His image. God established a vital truth: a designer marriage would be one lived the way God designed it to be. Sadly, most marriages are not designer marriages.
This morning if you are married, or ever want to beāit would be wise to seek out having a marriage as God the Designer wants it to be. In modern society, families are drawn to buying ādesignerā clothes or living in ādesignerā homes. That means clothes or houses that were specifically designed by a master at the art of clothing or home comforts.
Usually, designer property and clothes are better made, more beautiful, and much different than run-of-the-mill, average things. But often those same people who prefer everything else to be top-of-the-line, neglect to see that at the deepest level of their life, home, and family they are missing the best ādesignedā elementāa designer marriage.
Today, as we celebrate marriage, and the relationship God designed for us in His image to have, do you have one of those ādesignerā marriages?
Any believer, at any stage of life or marital status, can cultivate a marriage as God designed it to be. That means a marriage that follows the layout and plans fashioned by the Designer Himself. All the codes, passwords, and instructions to access a marriage as God designed it to be, are in this Book, God’s Word the Bible. So the first question we all need to ask ourselves is:
Do you have a
Designer Marriage?
The focus of Godās plan and design for marriage is simple, and the description is short. God says that a designer marriage starts with a man who will love and lead His wife in the same way Christ loves His Church. Please open there with me to Ephesians 5:25-33, and stand as we listen to God, the Designer of Marriage, share that design planned by Him, to make every marriage good.