Post by TheFirebrand on May 23, 2013 9:16:36 GMT -6
People are simply not understanding that DIVORCE is NOT Gods will. It doesn't matter what brought you to the point of divorce because those things are not Gods will either! Divorce is the end result of the sinful actions of people and their choices. God did not tell you to divorce! God does not "save" you from a bad marriage. God might save you from a person and that person's poor treatment of you, but its Gods will that the marriage would be saved before ever getting a divorce..
Malachi says God hates divorce. So God will never bless a divorce. Your life may change and you may have been forgiven for the act of divorce (assuming you sought genuine forgiveness) ... but as a Christian who should know where God stands on this matter, remarrying is not necessarily going to be blessed either. Not without genuinely seeking forgiveness for previous choices. If you were in the world and divorced then remarried as a Christian or became a Christian, you must still seek Gods forgiveness with a genuine heart for the past ...
Getting beat up or treated poorly or whatever the case may be does not change where God stands. He hates those things as well. He will is always that the marriage be repaired, that the guilty person or persons change their ways.. But people make their own choices. God also hates murder, but a person can be genuinely forgiven for it.
Human teaching has caused us to think in human ways. We don't seek Gods will in things anymore. Now granted an abuser may never change and a life may be in danger. So we have the "option" of leaving. That does not make it Gods will. It wasn't Gods will for the marriage to take such a bad turn in the first place. Divorce does not start with divorce and does not simply end with divorce either. It will remain one of many things that a person can be held accountable for. It is like any other sin and choice ... someone or something is always affected by it.
Malachi says God hates divorce. So God will never bless a divorce. Your life may change and you may have been forgiven for the act of divorce (assuming you sought genuine forgiveness) ... but as a Christian who should know where God stands on this matter, remarrying is not necessarily going to be blessed either. Not without genuinely seeking forgiveness for previous choices. If you were in the world and divorced then remarried as a Christian or became a Christian, you must still seek Gods forgiveness with a genuine heart for the past ...
Getting beat up or treated poorly or whatever the case may be does not change where God stands. He hates those things as well. He will is always that the marriage be repaired, that the guilty person or persons change their ways.. But people make their own choices. God also hates murder, but a person can be genuinely forgiven for it.
Human teaching has caused us to think in human ways. We don't seek Gods will in things anymore. Now granted an abuser may never change and a life may be in danger. So we have the "option" of leaving. That does not make it Gods will. It wasn't Gods will for the marriage to take such a bad turn in the first place. Divorce does not start with divorce and does not simply end with divorce either. It will remain one of many things that a person can be held accountable for. It is like any other sin and choice ... someone or something is always affected by it.