Why God should be considered when looking for a marriage partner

Marriage is a sacred institution, which one should not just hurriedly get into. There are many factors that come into play. Among these factors are

1. Compatibility factor
2. Adjustability
3. Background and environment
4. Level of spiritual maturity,
5. level of emotional maturity
6. physical maturity
7. Psychological maturity

There might be many some other factors one should consider when one is considering who to marry. Ultimately one should put God as number one when it comes to the issue of marriage and whom to marry.

Reasons why we should consider consider 

1. He instituted marriage: The Almighty God instituted marriage and the reasons why He instituted the marriage institution
2. He knows the perfect match for every individual: For Adam, the Lord knows that Eve was the perfect match for him.
3. He knows that which is in the heart of every individual, We don’t have the power to know the heart of people but God has the power.

 Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jer 17:10  I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

1Sa 16:7  But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Ecc 7:26  And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her

Meditate on the verses above, you will reason that God is better sought when it come to the issue to issue of marriage and whom to marry.