SOLID MARRIAGE: SO WHAT DO YOU MAKE YOUR SPOUSE?

Divorce

³¹ “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.  ³² But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.  MATT. 5:31-32

So yesterday Jesus takes on the religious leaders and our thinking  as it relates to divorce.  See later in the book of Matthew (19) they Pharisees come to him again asking is it unlawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason.  WHY?  Well there were two schools of rabbinical thought:  1) You can't divorce unless she's really done something bad, while another says 2) You can divorce her for any reason.   Isn't that so much like today?  We have, I know couples that want ANY REASON to justify divorcing their spouse, many of them all lead back to selfishness, and actually think GOD will support their decision.  Crazy.....IKR ( I know right...for those that didn't know.)

But what does Jesus say, and do....He totally avoided their question an makes a statement:  "That do you know what marriage is all about Two becoming one, and no one being able to reverse that."  So they come back and say (quoting the Mosaic law) about well why did Moses permit one to give his spouse a certificate?  Jesus returns fire, because of your hard, unforgiving, selfish hearts that concession was made.

See we have a responsibility HUSBANDS/WIVES and it's found in Ephesians 5.  It isn't your husbands job to make you happy, but it is his job through how He loves and lives with you in understanding to make you HOLY!  To make you radiant and to present  you in that way to the FATHER.  Essentially, you should be beaming because of your husband!  Ladies your husband should feel like He's well loved, cared for and respected.   He too should appear to the world around as a competent leader, not that you freely speak of him like folks bad mouth the President, heaping dishonor to God (His creator....no matter what belief that president is....GOD CREATED HIM, so we are to honor him, to make sure we are honoring HIM.)

So I ask again...WHAT DO YOU MAKE YOUR SPOUSE?  If it's not RADIANT, does that mean you are killing, extinguishing, snuffing out the light of Jesus that is suppose to dwell in them?  I should pray not.........love your wife, and understand & respect your husband, so that GOD may be GLORIFIED!  LGLP