Mark 10:2-12
2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” 10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Our culture tends to take a casual view towards sex and marriage, but to God it is a solemn commitment and a mystical union. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh" (verses 7-8). This union, this becoming "one flesh" is not something we should enter lightly or leave easily. It is not just about the sexual act, but is something that has spiritual significance. That is why the act of divorce and remarriage results in adultery (verses 11-12). Just because our culture makes something easy to do doesn't mean that it is easily accomplished in God's eyes.
Lord, help me to stay faithful in my marriage.
2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” 10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Our culture tends to take a casual view towards sex and marriage, but to God it is a solemn commitment and a mystical union. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh" (verses 7-8). This union, this becoming "one flesh" is not something we should enter lightly or leave easily. It is not just about the sexual act, but is something that has spiritual significance. That is why the act of divorce and remarriage results in adultery (verses 11-12). Just because our culture makes something easy to do doesn't mean that it is easily accomplished in God's eyes.
Lord, help me to stay faithful in my marriage.