Divorce

Okay, well the topic of today is quite possibly the most stupid man made idea that I have ever heard of, its called divorce. Yes, I know that Jesus says that its permitted in some cases of marital unfaithfulness (the definition of this though can be quite varied), but I sincerely wish that we could do something about the dissolution of the nuclear family. Recently someone extremely close to me that has been married for 52 years is getting a divorce. Whether this sad thing is thrust upon people because of violence, money, or just because they do not like each other anymore; it is quite plain that marriage no longer means what it used to mean. Our culture seems to have lost the meaning of the word commitment and replaced it with selfish conditional love. If, and yes I realize that this is virtually impossible, we as men and women could just follow the advice of Paul in Ephesians chapter 5, then homes would not be broken, children emotionally scarred, and lives lost to the other spiritual side. Please understand however that I believe a woman should submit totally to her husband. A husband should love his wife like he loves Christ. If both partners keep this as their goal, what a different understanding of Christian marriage would their be in this world. I do think women should be doormats for their husbands. I do not think husbands should just make all the decisions and use the submission concept to dominate their wives. This is not the point that Genesis makes when it says that couples should be one flesh. One flesh is the idea of unity. This means that you have to operate as one being because that is the way that God views you. This does not mean that you should just defer to the man in every decision. To be quite honest, sometimes I defer to my wife's judgement because I trust her. She defers to me some of the time because she trusts me. When we don't agree, we continue to COMMUNICATE until we find some resolution. That is another thing about marriage. If you have the attitude or the mindset that you can just quit, then you are doomed from the beginning. Marriage is not something that you should just quit, unless you think you can quit on God and I would not advise that either. What God has created, let no man put asunder.