In the beginning, God created all that is creation. He created the stars and the planets, the earth and all that lives on it. He created you and your fiancée. He created everything with wisdom and love.

Because He created you, your body, soul and mind, and because he has watched you and all creation grow and live, he knows better than you yourself what is best for you. He can be trusted to know what he is doing when he gives you direction in your life.

Because He loves you even more than you love yourself -- He sent His Son to die for you so that you could be free from guilt and sin. He sends His Spirit to guide and protect you. -- His guidance can be trusted to be what is the loving best for you.

A Christian marriage is a marriage that follows God's guidance in all matters. God's guidance is recognized as wise and loving.

When God created marriage, he left a place in it for himself. If a couple does not ask Him into their relationship, the hole where God belongs remains, leaving the relationship with a hollow feeling, a feeling that something is missing.

Many couples try to fill that God-shaped hole with a multitude of things: sports; careers; alcohol; power; sex; children; and, etc., but nothing fits the God spot quite right and so there is always this feeling that something is not quite right with the marriage, something is missing.

A Christian marriage is a relationship that is whole. Nothing is missing. God is in His place.

The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12:

Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up. But if someone is alone and falls, it's just too bad, because there is no one to help. If it is cold, two can sleep together and stay warm, but how can you keep warm by yourself? Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break.