The Surpassing Goal: Marriage Lived for the Glory of God

Today I read and enjoyed a the chapter entitled, "The Surpassing Goal: Marriage Lived for the Glory of God," from John Piper's book, Building Strong Families (Wheaton: Crossway, 2002).  Please have a glance at the following excerpt and take a few moments to relish the glory of God as seen in these various attributes.

The glory of God...

• the glory of His eternality that makes the mind want to explode
  with the infinite thought that God never had a beginning, but simply
  always was;
• the glory of His knowledge that makes the Library of Congress
  look like a matchbox and quantum physics like a first grade reader;
• the glory of His wisdom that has never been and can never be
  counseled by men;
• the glory of His authority over heaven and earth and hell, without
  whose permission no man and no demon can move one inch;
• the glory of His providence without which not one bird falls to
  the ground or a single hair turns gray;
• the glory of His word that upholds the universe and keeps all the
  atoms and molecules together;
• the glory of His power to walk on water, cleanse lepers, heal the
  lame, open the eyes of the blind, cause the deaf to hear, still storms
  with a word, and raise the dead;
• the glory of His purity never to sin, or to have a two-second bad
  attitude or evil thought;
• the glory of His trustworthiness never to break His word or let one
  promise fall to the ground;
• the glory of His justice to render all moral accounts in the universe
  settled either on the cross or in hell;
• the glory of His patience to endure our dullness for decade after
  decade;
• the glory of His sovereign, slave-like obedience to embrace the
  excruciating pain of the cross willingly;
• the glory of His wrath that will one day cause people to call out
  for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them;
• the glory of His grace that justifies the ungodly; and
• the glory of His love that dies for us even while we were
  sinners.

How are people going to live their lives so that their marriages display

the truth and worth and beauty and greatness of this glory, when

they devote almost no energy or time to knowing and cherishing this

glory?

Read the whole chapter via the link above.