Why aren't people getting married? Lots of reasons: of course our own flesh, our sin nature, is forefront - it always destroys when it is allowed to reign. When the flesh rules, Jesus is not glorified. So from that perspective - our own flesh prevents us from marrying.
But can we think about how another might be contributing and working tirelessy to prevent marriage?
Satan hates men, and he doesn't want them to be men.
Satan hates women, and he doesn't want them to be women.
If men and women, are, well, men and women, they are fulfilling their God-given destinies and being who Jesus created them to be - giving glory to God. This is a threat to Satan's kingdom.
Therefore his tactic is to spread lies and cause confusion and break down what we are called to be as respective men and women. This adds a lot of insecurity and confusion about who we're supposed to be, which just in turn makes the search for a spouse all the more complicated, as we hardly know which way is up, let alone how to love another.
We all have heard the complaint that men haven't been raised by fathers, that adolescence seems perpetual, that people too selfishly value the single life.
But, ultimately, I think it all points to this: Satan hates families. Not only is he in the business of trying to destroy them; he is in the business of making sure they aren't created in the first place. Establishing a family, when it is founded on a desire to glorify Jesus, is a part of establishing God's Kingdom. Do you think Satan would sit passively by and allow that? Do you think he would not try to stop it?
I think not.
