Relationships

Throughout the pages of Scripture are images of God longing to be a true Husband for His people, a metaphor of the most intimate of relationships. In the marriage union, a husband and wife share things no other person is privileged to know—the deepest level of love, sexual intimacy as a most sacred trust—where two hearts (and physical bodies) become one. When God made human beings in His image He creat- ed them male and female, one to compliment the other. There is a magnetic draw that the Lord put in Adam’s heart for Eve: “’At last!’ The man exclaimed. ‘This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh!’ ... This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into
one”