To engage your metaphor in a different direction...God uses marriage as a sanctifying agent in the life of husband and wife. So, while each one may be, at the altar, a mere box of corn flakes, over the years each can become a gourmet piece of french toast. :) The marriage is one of the means of sanctification. Keller talks about this in his book "The Meaning of Marriage," except with a different metaphor. :)
Well, that is certainly an important point. The girl you marry today, and the boy she marries, will not be the same person that they will be after you have married him, or he has married you. Leadership, submission, sanctification, the process of having and raising children… they are all things that God can use to sanctify.
That is a very good point, that person could be much better or much worse than when you started out. You're still stuck. A disappointment in your spouse may be God's way of sanctifying you. Not that one ought abandon wisdom in the process of selection.
Which is fine, as long as one remembers the ‘starving family’ part of the story. All too often all that is seen is the danger of the snake, not the need of the family.
To engage your metaphor in a different direction...God uses marriage as a sanctifying agent in the life of husband and wife. So, while each one may be, at the altar, a mere box of corn flakes, over the years each can become a gourmet piece of french toast. :) The marriage is one of the means of sanctification. Keller talks about this in his book "The Meaning of Marriage," except with a different metaphor. :)
Well, that is certainly an important point. The girl you marry today, and the boy she marries, will not be the same person that they will be after you have married him, or he has married you. Leadership, submission, sanctification, the process of having and raising children… they are all things that God can use to sanctify.
That is a very good point, that person could be much better or much worse than when you started out. You're still stuck. A disappointment in your spouse may be God's way of sanctifying you. Not that one ought abandon wisdom in the process of selection.
The rattlesnake analogy is amusing - because the rattlesnake can most certainly ruin your day, or life, if the process goes wrong.
Which is fine, as long as one remembers the ‘starving family’ part of the story. All too often all that is seen is the danger of the snake, not the need of the family.