ten things our disabled marriage has taught us about God

3. God created a mystery inside of marriage between man and woman.

This is no surprise for any of us in this room. And we don’t know how to explain it other than it is truly a mystery that God has created for us:

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.”

I love being Ian’s wife so much better than being his girlfriend. Sometimes when I look back on the five years that we dated, I’m not really sure how I made it. There were so many boundaries. But when we got married, there was no place in his mind or heart or body that I could not go. There was no space that we could not occupy together. I don’t understand it, and it’s more than sexual freedom and it’s just so comforting. It’s so comforting to know that Ian is always on my side, even if I’m wrong, because God designed these roles that we might know the comfort of Jesus’ commitment to the church.