Thinking About Divorce?
Mark 10:5-9 But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Marriages seem to be falling apart at an ever-increasing rate of knots. So you have to ask yourself, how does a relationship that began with such a great sense of hope and optimism, end, in such a disaster?
Anybody who’s ever been married has, at some point, contemplated divorce. Why? Because being married is difficult some days. And sometimes, those difficult days string together, one after the other, week after week, month after month, even year after year, to the point where you start thinking about divorce.
And if that thinking’s bumping round inside your head today, my intention is to stop you dead in your tracks. Okay, sometimes there’s violence and abuse involved and that clearly has to be dealt with. But most often, it goes something like this:
We’ve just drifted apart. We’re living separate lives. We never seem to be on the same page anymore. It’s too hard. I can’t take it anymore. The grass must be greener on the other side.
Some religious leaders were testing Jesus on divorce:
Moses said it was okay for a man to divorce his wife.
Mark 10:5-9 But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
It takes time for a heart to harden. And it takes time for it to soften again. But soften, it can; humble itself, it can. And what a mighty, mighty reward that will bring.
Oh, and by the way, the grass isn’t greener on the other side.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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