Mk 10:2-12
What God Has Joined Together....
2 Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
3 “What did Moses command you?” he replied.
4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
5 “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
10 When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. 11 He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”
Even with a declining divorce rate in the USA these days, or so many couples (48%) simply living living together, this teaching on marriage seems totally irrelevant. But on the other hand it is more relevant than ever. The financial and social pressures couples face present huge challenges to the longevity of their commitment, and it seems to me that only with God's grace, a vibrant spiritual life and the support of a faith community can marriage not only survive, but thrive in today's world. The teaching of Jesus needs to be blasted from the rooftops and preached in our churches if marriage is to succeed.
Bro. Rene
Dear God bless and enhance married couples and their families with a deeper love of you and a more consistent practice of their faith. Amen.
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