# 576 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 10:13,14 “Then they brought little children to Him, that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked those who brought them. But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly displeased and said to them, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.”
I want to go back to Mal 2:15a again today and look at one of the main purposes of marriage. “ “But did He not make them one, Having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring.”
Again we see the reality of the unity of making two, one. Why does God do this? Well, according to this passage, it's because He seeks godly offspring through the union of a believing man and his believing wife. This producing of children, pictures what God expects from the marriage of His Son to the church as well.
He expects us to produce godly offspring for Him through evangelism and baptism.
But with the embracing of birth control in the church today, we aren’t doing a real good job of painting this picture for others to see, and I think our evangelism efforts have suffered as we have gradually adapted to man-controlled programs to evangelize and determine the size of our church families rather than relying on God working through us, using love and the seed of His Word to grow His family.
Father, help us to see that there is so much more to marriage than what we have settled for.
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