Why Does God Hate Divorce?
Devoice is Breaking Faith
Faith in each other and faith in God
The bound of Marriage is love
Training is all about discipline with Love
It starts with parents who love enough to be disciplined
Disciplined parents producing disciplined children
Love covers a multitude of sins
Every parent makes mistakes
The spirit is willing and the flesh is weak
We all have weaknesses
Love must be the foundation of all we do
If so, when we build things that fall
They fall on the foundation of love
When things fall on the foundation of love
Mercy is there, giving the ability to rebuild again
Why Does God Hate Devoice?
I grew up in poverty.
I deeply loved my parents and they loved me.
My two brothers and sister would say the same.
Both my parents grew up in Christian homes.
My mom had parents who were married
until death separated them
and they were very active in the church.
My grandmother owned a flower shop.
She was so successful, my grandfather
closed his mechanic shop to work with her.
My Dad’s father died before my dad
could know who he was.
My grandmother went through several marriages
and my dad struggled.
The church was a big part of my parents’ lives.
I was born while my dad was in seminary.
They started a church in East Toledo.
They were loving and caring parents and Christians.
BUT
They failed at their marriage.
They failed at working out their differences
and the marriage ended in divorce.
I was three days into the first grade
when we moved to separate homes.
Neither Mom or Dad left the faith,
but struggled all their lives.
Their failure to work out their differences
put them and us four siblings in poverty.
Dad struggled, but paid the child support
of $40 a month.
When he had us for the day…
It was a treat to share fries at McDonalds.
Dad would sing a song (I hated)…
“I wish I had a nickel,
I’d tell you what I’d do
I’d buy me a candy bar
and eat is in front of you.”
I know my dad would never eat a candy bar
in front of us kids but…
He knew he did not have a nickel
to buy a candy bar.
My dad told me when he was in hospice…
He thought of suicide when we were young,
and the only reason he did not give up on life
was we kids needed him…
No matter how little he could provide.
Dad remarried and divorced.
It was only later in life that
he started to get ahead in life.
Mom never remarried but had to work.
She worked in my grandmother’s flower shop.
Mom could not help us kids too much with homework…
As she was tired from work
and new ways of teaching in school challenged her.
If we wanted candy…
We looked for pop bottles to cash in
at the local carry out.
I always thought I was dumb.
I hated school as I was bullied.
I did good if I could get a grade as high as a “C”.
I graduated not knowing how to read but…
I was able to understand how to work with my hands.
I was embarrassed to be around people.
I thought they would look down on me
and make fun of me.
Yet, with all my insecurities…
I knew God loved me and I loved Him.
It was only as I became an adult
that I saw God loved others
as much as me.
My parents failed in marriage and
that brought about failures as parents.
Thinking I was dumb…
It was only later in life I realized
we all come into this world knowing nothing.
Everything comes through learning and experience.
I realize now I am not dumb, in fact…
I think the brain is the greatest part God
made in the human body.
I love to think.
I taught myself to read, yet
I still do not like to read,
but I do love research.
I think of the man I could have been
if I had a father who could have shown me
the ways of life.
A mother who had more time to help me become
better at home making skills and education.
You could say my parents had a good divorce…
But I would say no divorce is good.
The reasons for not fostering love and commitment
as married partners are of the worst sort.
Because a lack of love and commitment destroys lives.
I realize there are relationships where one is trying
to keep the relationship together and the other is not.
Where some are selfish in their ways
and bring greater harm.
I may sound hard and not understanding…
But you cannot ever look at divorce as a good thing.
A divorce is a failure at the core of life, “LOVE”.
Love is commitment and it takes skill and work.
My Parents failed at Marriage
and that failure created many difficult challenges
My parents worked through the broken pieces to love us, their children
My parents would never speak bad about each other or
tell us why they got devoiced
There is no doubt I had great parents but because they could not work out their marriage, we all suffered
It is not the same for all marriages but from my advantage my parents created more work with less fruit than the amount of work it would have taken to work out their marriage
God Hates Devoice as we all should
Malachi 2:16
16 "I hate divorce," says the Lord God of Israel, "and I hate a man's covering himself with violence as well as with his garment," says the Lord Almighty.
So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.
NIV
Scripture Reading
Malachi 2:16
16 "I hate divorce," says the Lord God of Israel, "and I hate a man's covering himself with violence as well as with his garment," says the Lord Almighty.
So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.
NIV
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