# 568 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 10:6-9 "But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.' 7 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 'and the two shall become one flesh'; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 "Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."
The Pharisees are trying to turn people against Jesus by using the volatile issue of divorce. In His answer, He is telling them, “never mind the exceptions that Moses gave you because of the hardness of your hearts, go back to the beginning and rethink your polices regarding divorce and marriage.”
Perhaps we need to do the same today. God has ordained marriage between a man and a woman from the very beginning. In the act of marriage, He does something quite supernatural. He takes two separate entities, (a man that He created and a woman that He created) and makes them one.
Think of marriage as two separate pieces of cloth. (garments) In marriage, God supernaturally and seamlessly makes them one. This is a profound mystery, but one that God desires to use to illustrate to the world the mystery of becoming one with Christ!
Eph 5:30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Marriage is to be a visible demonstration of God's desire to be forever supernaturally united with His children through faith in Christ.
Therefore what God has joined together, let not man tear asunder. (Rip apart.)
Listen to what God says about this seamless garment in Mal 2:16, “For the Lord God of Israel says that He hates divorce, for it covers one's garment with violence,”
God's handiwork in marriage is carelessly ripped apart in divorce and He hates it! Shouldn't we?
Father, restore our perspective of marriage to Your original intent.
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