God the Great Lover

God is a great lover, and he created marriage to play out on this earth a daily, living, breathing portrait of the intimacy he longs for with his people. This is why it is such a central role. It is a kind of incarnation, a passion play about the love and union between Jesus and His beloved. Which might help you appreciate why the fury of hell has been unleashed against it. God is telling a love story and the setting is war. Pause for just a moment. God chooses marriage as the image of his love for his people, and our love for him?! I am dumbfounded. You're trusting us with what? Then again, he gave the church the mission of evangelizing the world, insisting that unless we do it the job would not get done. It is a mission the staggering consequence...

Taken from John Eldredge's book, "Love and War."