5:25 p.m. Today's project was to follow up my hairdresser appointment with a stop at Smart & Final for a large tub of vanilla ice cream for Steve and some special treats for our 29th wedding anniversary this weekend. We'r planning on some fun togetherness over the next few days!
"What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder," the Lord Jesus commanded in Matthew 19:6. In other words, get married and stay married, and see how the Lord will work beautifully in your life! (Or take the opposite direction, and create misery for many). In my morning devotional reading today, I found Malachi 2:14-16, where God rebukes husbands for treachery against their wives. One sentence stood out to me in verse 14: Yet she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman, but also between a man, a woman, and God!
Verse 15 goes on to say, "But did He not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth. " Godly offspring from a God-honoring marriage--I can say that the Lord has blessed our home with 5 children, who belong to Him!
Hear verse 16: "For the LORD God of Israel says that He hates divorce, for it covers one's garment with violence." (The New Living Translation says, "To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty.") What a picture of devastation for wives! And as for the children, does anyone even bother to argue the higher risks children of divorce are subject to, whether anti-social and self-abusive behaviors, like premarital sex and drug use; poverty; their own failed marriages; depression and suicide?
Psalm 68:11 came to me as I sat down to write about something entirely different...that verse says, "The LORD gave the word; great was the company of those who proclaimed it."
Let us proclaim today, in a mighty company, that we will faithfully remain in our marriages, no matter what trials come about; we will support any and all others who are struggling and almost ready to give up on their own marriages, or all newly married couples going through the adjustments that marriage calls for!! [We also proclaim and freely offer personal, loving support for struggling parents].
Because the LORD gave the Word!!
"What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder," the Lord Jesus commanded in Matthew 19:6. In other words, get married and stay married, and see how the Lord will work beautifully in your life! (Or take the opposite direction, and create misery for many). In my morning devotional reading today, I found Malachi 2:14-16, where God rebukes husbands for treachery against their wives. One sentence stood out to me in verse 14: Yet she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman, but also between a man, a woman, and God!
Verse 15 goes on to say, "But did He not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth. " Godly offspring from a God-honoring marriage--I can say that the Lord has blessed our home with 5 children, who belong to Him!
Hear verse 16: "For the LORD God of Israel says that He hates divorce, for it covers one's garment with violence." (The New Living Translation says, "To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty.") What a picture of devastation for wives! And as for the children, does anyone even bother to argue the higher risks children of divorce are subject to, whether anti-social and self-abusive behaviors, like premarital sex and drug use; poverty; their own failed marriages; depression and suicide?
Psalm 68:11 came to me as I sat down to write about something entirely different...that verse says, "The LORD gave the word; great was the company of those who proclaimed it."
Let us proclaim today, in a mighty company, that we will faithfully remain in our marriages, no matter what trials come about; we will support any and all others who are struggling and almost ready to give up on their own marriages, or all newly married couples going through the adjustments that marriage calls for!! [We also proclaim and freely offer personal, loving support for struggling parents].
Because the LORD gave the Word!!
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