5 reasons you can’t avoid God and still expect a happy marriage

2. Running away from God is the root of all broken families.

In modern culture, political leaders try to perform a complicated statistical dance to precisely determine the cause of broken families. Is it poverty, divorce, bad choices, lack of education, drug use…  a combination of all of these? However, Ortlund points out that marital strife is nothing new — when sin entered the world, marriage got much more complicated.  All of boils down, at the simplest level, to God-avoidance. We can’t believe that repeating Adam and Eve’s mistake will yield different results for us.