REBUILDING MARRIAGE

Rebuilding Broken Marriages!


Some Pharisees came to interview him (Jesus) and tried to trap him into saying something that would ruin him. “Do you permit divorce?” they asked.
 

“Don’t you read the Scriptures?” he replied. “In them it is written that at the beginning God created man and woman, and that a man should leave his father and mother, and be forever united to his wife.
 

The two shall become one-no longer two, but one! And no man may divorce what God has joined together.”
 

“Then, why,” they asked, “did Moses say a man may divorce his wife by merely writing her a letter of dismissal?”
 

Jesus replied, “Moses did that in recognition of your hard and evil hearts, but it was not what God had originally intended.
 And I tell you this, that anyone who divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another, commit adultery.”

- Matthew 19:4-9 (TLB)
 

Divorce and separation is not part of God’s plan for marriage. His original plan is for a man and his wife to live together all through their days on earth. The two are to leave their parents and cleave to one another – when two individuals cleave, they become one and since you cannot separate a man from himself, a married couple should not be separated.
 

If you have two pieces of paper glued together, what happens when you try to separate them? You may end up tearing them apart. Consequently, both may be destroyed. That is why Jesus said, “What God has joined together, let no man put asunder” because there would be serious damages in the process.
 

Divorce and separation in marriages is destructive. When a family is torn apart, there is always pain, sorrow of heart and bitterness. But I am glad to let you know that what ever is destroyed can be rebuilt because we serve a God of second chance; He is the God of restorations.
 

Marriages are not meant to fail. But what happens when they do? There is a way out. Micah 7:8 says, “Rejoice not against me o mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.”
 

When you fall, you can rise again. It is only when you remain on the ground that you are called a failure. Many have torn their families apart through carelessness and laziness because they refuse to take positive steps.
 If you are presently divorced or separated from your spouse, I want you to know that your relationship can be built again. Convince yourself that in the beginning it was not designed to be so. Assure yourself again and again that, “there shall be restoration for me, because I’m a covenant child. God is no respecter of persons. He who has done it for others will surely do it for me.”