Well, when does marriage move from being a precious gift from God into a false God of personal

security?

That's the question today and it's sent into us from Valerie, a sharp podcast listener

who lives in France, hellodesiringGod.org team, thank you for your ministry and for letting

so many people benefit from all of the free resources at the site.

Professor John, my EPJ question for you is this, I deeply love my husband and I am deeply

grateful to God for lending him to me as my husband during this earthly life.

But I don't want to make him an idol in my life.

What are some certain signs that I have made him an idol in my life and in my personal

security and how can I love more and more my husband without finding my satisfaction

in this relationship rather than in my relationship with God?

These own words are pretty amazing in the right direction, right?

I mean, I haven't heard a lot of women use this language when she says, I deeply, I'm

deeply grateful to God for lending him to me as my husband during this earthly life.

That's a huge step in answering her own question.

My husband is not mine.

He belongs to the Lord.

He is on loan to me for this life and then it's over because in the age to come, Jesus

says there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the resurrection.

And so my goodness, Valerie has her, her ducks in a row, theologically it seems to me.

But she is very wise, I think, to ask the question and to think in terms of idolatry we

all should and ask what the symptoms of it might look like.

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