The Age of the Bachelor

My wife occasionally watches the popular TV show "The Bachelor" from time to time and when she does I watch it with her. The more I watch this show, the more I dislike it and what it reveals about our culture, and teaches about love and marriage. This show promotes that "love" is some emotion or feeling that you "fall" into and "fall" out of. It teaches that marriage is so nonchalant that you can chose the person you are going to marry by having an elimination challenge. This show is the epitome of how our culture views love and marriage. Love seems to be something we come in and out of frequently, and something that is solely based on what we want. Love and marriage are portrayed as something that should be catered to you and what the other person can give you. The entire message of this show seems to go against everything that the Bible teaches about love and marriage. These are not avenues for us to meet our desires, but rather an avenue to meet the needs of those we love. As Gary Thomas states in his book "Sacred Marriage," marriage is not so much for your happiness as it is for you holiness. Would we as Christians seek to find our view of love and marriage from God and not from the world, for as John says "God is love" (1 Jn. 4:9).