all things—and marriage in particular—exist to move the appearance of God in people’s minds toward Reality. God is unimaginably great and infinitely valuable and unsurpassed in beauty. “Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable” (Ps. 145:3, ESV). Everything that exists is meant to magnify that Reality. God cries out through the prophet Isaiah (43:6–7, ESV), “Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name,