God's purposes for marriage are much higher and greater than our own. God said that it was not good for man to be alone (Gen. 2:18) and therefore He created Eve as an answer to that aloneness.

Even though before the creation of Eve, Adam had everything that He could want, a close, perfect relationship with God, a perfect environment and all the possessions, he still had a void. Eve was made to fill that void. The intimacy of marriage blends two individuals into oneness and sameness. Eve was to be a suitable helper, a woman that would complement and complete him in every way. This intimacy in marriage develops from an attitude of servant hood in seeking to meet each other's needs and desires.

In a marriage, the husband and wife work as a team; they build each other up and edify one another. They are meant to work in compatibility to each other. Marriage can also be a refining work in the lives of the two individuals involved as it requires sacrifice and selflessness and patience.

Because of movies that give a warped idea about love and the wrong examples the media portrays about it, men and women, but especially men confuse “love” with lust these days. If marriage is based on simply the desire to get sexual fulfillment, it will break apart very easily because this is not at all the reason God had in mind in designing marriage.

True, godly love is a different concept altogether. It involves a giving of husband and wife to each other, a sharing of plans, hopes and dreams between two people who want to build an entire life together until death does them part. In a godly relationship, the husband and wife strive to work together and put each other’s needs before their own. Godly love also involves maturity and a great deal of understanding between the partners. Partners also have to be able to communicate with each other in a way that is proper and loving.

Marriage is a Covenant Relationship for life.

"For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband" (Romans 7:2).

Marriage is not only the joining of a man and woman, but it is also a Covenant, a promise to be faithful in that union for life. The love the husband and wife have is exclusive to each other.

It is important to make your commitment to wed publicly. This way, you also gain support of others and show that you are from this day no longer single and are pledging to be together from this day onward.

Because it is a Covenant Relationship, done lawfully and under God, marriage gives the right to experience the bond of physical union.

"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis 2:24).

The sexual relationship is a very fundamental and tangible expression of the oneness and commitment of marriage, and it is fully in God's design for marriage.