This great gift

A wise friend with wise words once remarked how people so often look to marriage to make them happy, when the real goal is to make them holy. And life too, is to make us holy. It's so easy to get these two pursuits mixed up in my head when the mass media portrays love, marriage, and all things romance as some fulfillment of happiness.

Marriage is great. It's a wonder that is a great mystery and I am so thankful for it. Every now and then I pause and am amazed that God has instituted such a great thing as marriage. But it seems easy to get disappointed or sidetracked because people (me included) mistake it as the means to happiness, instead of holiness. Isn't life's purpose that but the glorification of God?