What kind of guidance or advice does God give regarding marriage?
God is very clear in the Bible about the destruction of divorce, about the need to humbly consider the other person’s needs above our own, about being truthful with each other, about avoiding sexual immorality, and much more. But being told what to do does not necessarily mean we will want to do it. His guidance is often different from what we would feel like doing (for example, telling your spouse the truth at a time when lying would appear very useful). But repeatedly couples have found how wise God is, and how smart it is to trust and follow His blueprints for building relationships. For example, God still says that marriage needs to come before sexual intimacy. Yet in our culture 64% of college students in a poll agreed with this statement–“Living together as a couple before getting married is a good idea.”{5} Many of these students watched their parents’ marriages fall apart and reason that “trying out” the relationship seems like a good idea. So why does God put marriage before
