AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.
Mark 10:8.9
How would you ever learn grace to pour out your favor on someone who did not deserve it if you were married to someone who was always deserving of all good things?
The main purpose of your marriage is that through marriage
you become conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.
You are married to a person that does not meet all the conditions
so that you might learn unconditional love.
You are married to a person that needs mercy so that you learn to give it.
You are married to a person that does not deserve so you learn to pour lavishly out on a person who does not respond appropriately and thus you become like the God you worship.
Man cannot unjoin what God has joined. The one flesh union God has created in marriage is permanent until death; for richer for poorer, in sickness in health, for better or worse.
Let me ask you something is adultery for better or worse;
it is for worse but it is covered in the marriage vows.
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This is why I say that Christianity is NOT for wimps!!! It is hard. It is dying to self. It is grace ~ treating others better than they deserve. It is walking in the footsteps of Jesus who suffered wrongly and was ill-treated but never demanded His rights and continued to serve those who persecuted Him. This is basic Christianity, not some back woods demeaning way of punishing wives. It is what is demanded of ALL who follow Jesus. We don't get a free pass just because the one who mistreats us is our husband. God's word still applies.
Thank God, Lori, that she came to you and not others who would have led her on to tear down her home with her own hands! {Candi May commenting on She's At Her Wits End}
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Mbb · 588 weeks ago
joepote01 41p · 587 weeks ago
Divorce becomes a necessity when one partner's heart is hardened against their spouse (Matt 19:8) in unrepentant abuse of the marriage covenant.
Divorce should never be taken lightly, just as marriage should never be taken lightly, but it is sometimes a necessity.
Our God is a covenant God, and as His children, we should also honor our covenant vows and seek to bless and enrich the lives of our covenant partners.
Our God always uses covenant to enrich and bless. He never uses covenant to enslave or abuse. It is never God's desire for His children to be enslaved in a covenant of abusive bondage. For His children who are enslaved in a covenant of abusive bondage, God offers redemption...the dissolution of the enslaving covenant with an abusive partner.
This is how God redeemed Israel from their covenant of bondage to Pharaoh. This is how God redeemed His children from our covenant of bondage to the kingdom of darkness. This is how God redeems His children from covenants of abusive bondage to an abusive spouse, still today.
Thank God, our Redeemer lives!
Lady Virtue · 587 weeks ago
Marriage certainly is not for wimps. God makes no allowances for divorce. It is never necessary. Separation is permissible, per I Corinthians 7, but if done, one must remain unmarried or be reconciled to that estranged spouse. Adultery (moichea) is not an allowance for divorce either, as many assume per Matthew 5:32 and Matthew 19:9-10. Those Scriptures permit a Jewish man to put away his wife during betrothal if she was guilty of fornication (porneia), as Joseph was going to do to Mary in Matthew 1.
When just one or two supposed allowances are made for divorce, the floodgates inevitably come open and people use any excuse to do it. "Remarriage" is adultery (Luke 16:18). Would to God more pastors told this Biblical truth and let the chips fall where they may.