So many are working very hard to justify their divorce and remarriage, it is astonishing.
If one has done this and are completely comfortable with what they have done, then why is the need so strong to convince others they have done the right thing.
I suggest that those who have divorced and remarried are not entirely convinced in their own minds or they would not feel a need to defend so strongly their actions.
God was clear on this matter of divorce and remarriage, there is no need for discussion, and yet we see these sins being defended more than any other issue.
Our culture has been brainwashed to believe divorce and remarriage are justified because of sins against someone in the marriage. It is almost humorous if it were not so sad, simply because those who are defending God's way to strengthen marriages, to bring the proper perspective of marriage to those who have not yet married, we see others coming to defend the sin, leading many young people astray, giving them the impression that there need be no commitment unto death to a spouse.
To these people a spouse is nothing more than a tool for their own purposes. Rather than being willing to die for the spouse, no matter what they do, they promote bailing out, abandoning the spouse in their sin so as to be free themselves from any hardship.
I have heard stories of women and men who stood by their spouse during terrible times and sins against one another, only to be victorious over the sins because their spouse stood by them. I have known people who were abandoned, going on to be successful in their walk with Christ alone, making a life for themselves without the one who abandoned them while praying for them the whole time.
We have abandoned Christ, we have sinned in every way possible against the Lord as a culture and yet we feel superior to those who abandon us. WHAT? No one is sin free, not even in marriage.
To say that "I would never be that bad" to a sinning spouse is arrogance and selfish. Sins can be very bad, but that does not mean there is never going to be a turning and change. Our culture lacks faith, that's why Christ does far fewer miracles in our culture than He could, because there is no faith that He can be our all, He can change our hearts.
Matthew 13:57-58 "…57 And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.” 58 And He did not do many miracles there, because of their unbelief."
YES, I have said it and no argument against this will be received. We do not see reconciliation of marriages in our culture or people moving on to serve Christ alone because of the lack of faith that dwells here.
We are not called to change another person, we are called to be faithful to God ourselves and pray for others. We are to tell the truth, but we are not to punish a spouse by divorcing them just because they are not "as good as we are." This superior mentality that lacks empathy and compassion is what is pervasive in our culture, brought on my the self esteem nonsense.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 3 "But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."
We are not to "avoid" our spouses, we are to avoid those men that bring selfish and devilish doctrines that destroy our marriages.
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