SCRIPTURE: Mark (NIV) 10: 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female’. 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
OBSERVATION: Making some humans male and others female is God’s idea. It was He who designed the differences. It was not for the purpose of separating them, but for the purpose of uniting them. When their differences are united, “… the two will become one flesh.” The differences give them the opportunity to love and serve one another. The uniting of differences gives strength and produces fruitfulness!
God is the one who created the differences, and God is the one who joins them in creating new life. Divorce is man’s way of dealing with differences.
APPLICATION: In marriage, the flesh of a man and woman are joined sexually to bring about a child whose flesh is the combination of the flesh (the DNA) of its two parents. The two have become one through their commitment to each other. The two have become one through the presence and blessing of God on their commitment to each other. The two have become on through their identity with each other. The two have become one through forming one household. The two have become one through their physical sexual union. And the two have become one in the child they produce. No wonder God puts such a high value on marrying and preserving marriage.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, thank you for my wife and the life we share together. I am blest! …we are blest! …our family is blest! And, Lord, most of all, we want you to be blest! Amen
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