--Yesterday, we learned that the single best analogy for the Trinity is the one God Himself chose: humanity in marriages and families.
--And it’s important to grasp that this particular way of rightly representing God is our ultimate purpose in this world.
--We Christians all know that the purpose of anything is to bring glory to God.
--Thus, when God creates every aspect of the world, He declares it good in Genesis 1. But in the middle of creating mankind, God suddenly stops and says, “it is NOT GOOD for man to be alone.”
--When we read this, we often think, “Well, that’s because loneliness is bad. People need spouses or friends, you know.” That is a totally human-centered understanding of things, a humanistic reading if you will. The real reason it was “not good” for Adam to be alone was because humanity (intended to glorify God) would become a sort of lie or blasphemy of God’s Triune nature if left alone. A single man declares mere monotheism. And yet multiple independent people would declare polytheism.
--So what does God do? They make male AND female AND marriage AND sexual union AND reproduction. Only then does God proclaim man not merely good, but “very good.” Why very good? Because finally there is something here in this created world that more fully than anything else represents God’s Nature and can bring glory to Him: a family of married man and woman.
--And this is why Christians have historically taken the notions of marriage and divorce and family and sexuality so seriously. The function of family isn’t merely to bring us happiness or give us a project in parenting. The much more fundamental function of marriage and family is to represent God’s nature here on earth.
--When we tinker with those, we distort how we represent God.
--And one of God’s neatest gifts, even to those families that aren’t Christian, so long as they involve marriage and children is that they have the privilege of representing and glorifying a God they may not even believe in or know about.
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