Marriage love is one of the most profound and central teachings in theology. This is why!
What It Is
Marriage love is the deepest, most sacred form of love between a man and a woman - not just emotional affection or physical attraction, but a union of souls, minds, and hearts that mirrors the divine union of goodness and truth within God Himself. It is the love of loves, the crown of all human loves.
Its Divine Origin
God is the very source of marriage love. Within the Divine itself, there is a marriage of infinite Love (which corresponds to the feminine, or goodness) and infinite Wisdom (which corresponds to the masculine, or truth). When this divine marriage flows into a human male and female couple and is received in freedom and lived out in genuine virtue, that is divine love in its fullest expression.
It’s Not Just Marriage - It’s Spiritual Union
What makes marriage love distinct is that it operates on every level simultaneously; spiritual, mental, and physical. Two people become genuinely one - not by losing their individuality, but by complementing each other so perfectly that together they form a complete human being. The wife embodies the love, the husband embodies the wisdom, and in true spiritual union these flow into each other and become whole.
Chastity and Purity
Marriage love is inherently chaste. It is the very opposite of lust. In fact, to the degree that genuine marriage love is present, all desire for anyone outside that one partner simply falls away naturally - not by suppression or willpower, but because the heart is genuinely fulfilled. Adultery and marriage love are spiritual opposites, and indulging in one destroys the capacity for the other.
It Grows After Death
This love doesn’t end at the grave. In heaven, true marriage partners find each other and continue to grow in union eternally. The love actually deepens and becomes more perfect in the spiritual world, because there the interior life is fully open and two people who are genuine spiritual partners recognize each other immediately and completely.
Why Most People Don’t Experience It Fully
Genuine marriage love is rare in this world because it requires a high degree of spiritual development - your ruling love must be oriented toward God and toward genuine goodness, not toward self. Most marriages contain fragments of it mixed with other loves. But even a small degree of it is precious and should be honored and cultivated.
The Practical Takeaway
Marriage love isn’t a destination you arrive at on your wedding day. It’s something that grows as you both grow spiritually, and as you shed selfishness, grow in genuine care for each other, and align your lives with divine goodness and truth. Marriage, in this light, is one of the primary vehicles of regeneration itself. It is the only way to experience hevenly joy prior to death and entrance into spiritual life.
So that is why you should value it. Because Marriage Love is the very joy of heaven inscribed on human hearts.
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