Will we be married in heaven?

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Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Heaven”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.” Matthew 22:30 (NIV)
 
Our thought for today: “Will we be married in heaven?”
 
There’s a humorous song from the 1970s that tells the story of a young man and his girlfriend involved in an increasingly passionate moment. The young man’s passions are getting the better of him and he’s eager to take the relationship to the next level. But suddenly the girlfriend declares, “Stop right there! Before we go any further, I need to know, “Do you love me? Will you love me forever? Will you make me your wife, for the rest of your life? Will you love me till the end of time?” The young man struggles with his answers but the girl holds her ground until finally, the young man insists he will indeed love her till the end of time.
 
The song then picks up many years later with the now older man singing about decades of misery married to a woman he can’t stand. But he was a man of his word and he kept his vow to stay married “till the end of time.” So now in this part of the song he’s singing, “I promised to love you till the end time …, so now I’m praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you!!!”
 
That man would have probably appreciated Jesus’ words in Matthew 22:30 that in heaven there is no marriage. However, this is a greatly misunderstood passage. In it, Jesus does not teach that our relationship with our spouse ceases to exist in heaven. Only that marriage, as we understand it here on earth, no longer exists. The intent of the marriage relationship in this lifetime was first and foremost for the purposes of procreation. Second, it served to establish guardrails for appropriate sexual relations. Third, it created a family structure divinely designed to promote strong families. In heaven, none of that is needed any longer.
 
But that does not mean that we won’t be with our spouses. As we have already seen in previous devotionals in this series, in eternity we will still be our unique individual selves; we will still know each other; and we will all be there together. In heaven God doesn’t replace the best things of earth, He makes them better – He makes them perfect. So, it only makes sense that He would bless us with a continuation of our most important relationships here on earth – only now perfected. All of those family and friends who mattered to us most on earth and who were are Christians, will be there with us in heaven. That includes our Christian husband or wife.
 
I pray for the end of time too, because it’s going to be great. But unlike the man singing that song, I’m looking forward to spending eternity with the one I spent this life with.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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7 thoughts on “Will we be married in heaven?”

    1. Good morning. It’s a fair question for which the Bible doesn’t give us a definitive answer. However, in Matthew 19:29 Jesus said, “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields because of my name will receive a hundred times more and will inherit eternal life.”

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      2. Good morning. The Scriptures appear to show that in heaven we will be together with our loved ones from this lifetime who were also saved, and that we will know each other for who we were on earth.

        Jesus said that we will not be married in heaven as we were on earth (there is no need for that kind of marriage in heaven), but I believe we will still be with our saved spouse and will still know him or her for who they were on earth.

        The purpose of marriage on earth was for procreation; and to provide a moral structure for the expression of sexual intimacy; and to serve as a picture of the close relationship between God and His people. In heaven none of that is needed any longer and therefore marriage as we know it in this life is no longer practiced.

        I hope that explanation helps.

        God bless,
        Pastor Jim

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