A thought on marriage from John Piper

OK, OK, i guess i have a one-track mind since getting engaged a week ago; but there is so much to think about and learn! Here's something that amazed me from Piper's sermon "Staying Married is not about Staying in Love, Part 1." He talked about how It was God who acted as the father of the bride in the marriage between Adam and Eve. Genesis 2 talks about how God created Eve and then "brought her to Adam" and gave her to him. It put this fatherly act in a whole new perspective. Then i thought about how that mirrored Christ. Genesis 2 also says "Therefore and man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." Christ left His Father to come to earth (Hebrews 12), and God brought Him his Bride and gave her to Him (John 6:37, 17:2, 6, 12). They will be "one" through Christ for eternity. It's really a neat thought, and puts some of our ceremonial tradition in a new light. It's also another way marriage displays the glory of Christ!