This is mostly an echo post of my wife on marrying young. There are of course many issues to deal with on the surface of this statement. There are those who have not been afforded the opportunity, who may think this is a dig on them. There are those who lack the maturity, despite the willingness to be married. That is what I would like mostly to address.

Many influences on Christian young people strongly push to avoid marriage, and after that children, until one has reached certain goals. Generally they are financial. And there is also the push to have gotten out to see the world and, possibly, learned who they are in some sort of mystical way. But these encouragements tend, I think, in inhibit the growth of the church through mature Christian adults living God-honoring lives.

It’s true that one should be content with what they have been given where they are in life. But it is true too that maturing means doing things, acting on convictions and taking risks. A mature person does not sit inside hoping to avoid work and the fruits thereof, nor does he run from it by finding meaningless tasks.

The simple point I would like to make is that God has made men and women for a purpose, and has made them designed to help each-other, in an intimate one-on-one manner, to act out that purpose. Be fruitful, multiply, and take dominion. To many young people avoid that calling, and are encouraged away from it by well meaning older Christians.

I was married fairly young, but I wish that I had been ready much earlier in life than I had been. I have never been so blessed as I have been within the marriage covenant and in raising a family for the Lord. It is also the hardest thing I have ever done.  But I would not trade it for all the world.