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(Blogmeister's note:  Today's post is in honor of my parents' anniversary.  They were married 62 years when Dad passed away.  Today would have been 65 years.)


"Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.  And Adam said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She will be called Woman because she was taken out of Man.'  Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."  (Genesis 2:22-24 NKJV)

"...God was there as a witness when you spoke your marriage vows to your young bride, and now you've broken those vows, broken the faith-bond with your vowed companion, your covenant wife.  God, not you, made marriage.  His Spirit inhabits even the smallest details of marriage.  And what does He want from marriage? Children of God, that's what.  So guard the spirit of marriage within you. Don't cheat on your spouse.

'I hate divorce,' says God...'I hate the violent dismembering of the one flesh of marriage.  So watch yourselves.  Don't let your guard down.  Don't cheat.' " (Malachi 2:14-16 The Message Bible)

Marriage doesn't begin with emotions, sex, or living together ~ it begins with a promise, a vow, a forever word.  We often forget what we commit to when we commit to the covenant of marriage.  It's about actively pursuing "oneness" ~ two become of one heart, one mind, one spirit, one soul.  We forget that it's not about our own personal happiness and then leaving when things get tough or it's not fun anymore or someone else "rings our bell." 

God hates divorce because He is a covenant God and we are breaking a sacred covenant.  God hates divorce for good reason but He does not hate divorced people.  We have all fallen short and all need His grace and mercy.

Divorce was once a word in my vocabulary.  Once.  It no longer holds meaning or is an option that I can or would pursue.   I hold myself accountable to both the man I made a marriage covenant with and the God whose idea it was in the first place.