A Heart for Family #556

No fault divorce has become standard. Big hearts seem in short supply. Parents leave children in the lurch. Little hearts are torn. Children lose a sense of stability. They do not know whom to trust.

"Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?" (Matthew 19:3). Good question. Society says, "Yes!" Jesus Christ has a different response. "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate" (Matthew 19:4-6).

The conclusion is simple. If God puts a man and a woman together as husband and wife, do men and women have a right to tear apart what God establishes? Even the disciples of Jesus backed away from this idea. "If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry" (Matthew 19:10).

Again, Jesus has a different thought. Why divorce for any cause? "Because of your hardness of heart" (Matthew 19:8). Marriage takes big hearts. Family life necessitates giving, loving hearts. The answer is soft hearts, new hearts, loving hearts, big hearts.

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