Introduction: A Personal Question
When you are asked, “What is your marital status?” you may think of paperwork at the registry, a social label, or a simple box to check—single, married, divorced, or widowed. But God asks this question on a deeper level. Your marital status with Him is not about legal documents or cultural recognition, but about covenant, intimacy, and faithfulness. From Eden to Israel’s exile, Scripture reveals that our relationship with God has always been portrayed as a marriage. To examine your marital status is to discern whether you are united with Christ, estranged from Him, or wavering in unfaithfulness.
1. God’s Call to Oneness
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD” (Deut. 6:4).
Jesus revealed this same truth when He told the Samaritan woman, “Go, call your husband” (John 4:16–18). Her five husbands and current partner symbolized broken covenants and misplaced devotion. Just as God is one, He calls His people into a covenant of oneness with Him. Our marital status—spiritually speaking—reveals whether we are faithful to this covenant or estranged from it.
Reflection: What is your marital status with God today—single and unattached, married and faithful, or drifting into unfaithfulness?
2. Marriage in Eden: The Original Covenant
In the beginning, God established marriage as a divine union (Genesis 2:21–25). Adam and Eve, created in His image, were called to walk in fellowship with Him. Marriage was not man’s invention but God’s revelation of His desire for covenantal union.
But sin entered through disobedience. When Adam and Eve broke fellowship with God, shame and separation followed. Spiritual adultery began when man listened to another voice instead of the voice of God.
Reflection: Are you still hearing the voice of your Bridegroom, or has another voice entered your heart?
3. Cain and Abel: Two Ways of Worship
The first family tragedy showed how marital status with God is tested in worship. Abel offered a sacrifice in faith, while Cain’s was rejected (Genesis 4:3–7). Cain’s anger and rebellion revealed a heart estranged from God, while Abel’s faith reflected covenant intimacy. Cain’s line became marked by rebellion, but God raised up Seth to continue the godly seed.
Reflection: Is your worship born of faith and obedience, or of self-will and pride?
4. From Noah to Abraham: Preserving the Covenant Line
As corruption spread across the earth, God found Noah righteous and preserved him through the flood. From his sons came nations, but also new rebellions. Out of this history, God called Abraham—a man who heard the true voice of the one God in a land filled with idols (Genesis 12:1–3).
Abraham’s covenant signified marriage: promises, oaths, and faithfulness. Through his line, God prepared a people to be His bride.
Reflection: Like Abraham, are you walking out of your old country of sin into covenant with God?
5. Israel’s Betrothal and Betrayal
Israel’s history was a marital story. God delivered her from Egypt, led her through the wilderness, and brought her to Sinai. There He gave her His Law—a marriage contract sealed with blood. Yet even in the wilderness, she turned to other gods. Her captivity in Egypt had left her corrupted by idolatry, and her heart wandered after the nations.
Prophets described Israel’s unfaithfulness as adultery. Finally, God declared: “I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce” (Jer. 3:8).
Reflection: Are you faithful to the covenant of Christ, or have you let the idols of this world seduce you away?
6. Marital Status: More Than a Human Label
In our time, “marital status” is reduced to a legal category: single, married, divorced, widowed. But biblically, marriage is more than paperwork. It involves:
Covenant vows — spoken commitments before God.
Consummation — union that seals the covenant.
Faithfulness — ongoing fidelity until death.
Spiritually, our marital status is determined the same way. We are either betrothed to Christ, united with Him, or estranged through unfaithfulness.
Reflection: Are you legally, spiritually, and faithfully joined to Christ—or only outwardly associated with Him?
