6/13/2009 8:11 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Divorce
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Deut. 24:1-4
Message of the verse: “1 ¶
"When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she
finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he
writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out
from his house, 2 and she leaves his
house and goes and becomes another man’s wife, 3 and if the latter husband turns against her and
writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out
of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, 4 then her former husband who sent her away is
not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for
that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land
which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.”
The
reason that a man and woman could divorce is kind of a mystery because of the
use of the word in verse on, “indecency” which does not mean to commit
adultery, for if it meant that there would have had to be a stoning of the
guilty party who committed the adultery.
Indecency: “AV-nakedness 50,
nakedness + 01320 1, shame 1, unclean 1, uncleanness 1; 54
1) nakedness, nudity, shame,
pudenda
1a) pudenda (implying shameful
exposure)
1b) nakedness of a thing,
indecency, improper behaviour
1c) exposed, undefended (fig.)”
When
God created man and woman there was not such law needed because everything was
perfect, but after sin entered men and women did get divorces, and it seems
like this was assumed when Moses wrote these laws. There was division as to why divorces were
allowed even up to the time of Christ.
Death and adultery were two legitimate reasons for divorce, and Warren
Wiersbe says that because adultery meant death in the old Covenant and because
the Church could not stone adulterers in the NT that it meant death.
In
two commentaries that I read on this it seems like this law was actually made
for the woman so that she could remarry.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: In last weeks sermon Greg brought up a book
about marriage entitled: “Sacred
Marriage: What if God designed marriage
to make us holy more than to make us happy.”
This title seems to make sense to me for it seems that the hardest thing
two people can do two sinful people, is to live together and get along. This can only be done by the Spirit of the
Lord and the dedication of the two people to stay together.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Be filled with the Holy Spirit.
- Put on the spiritual armor: The belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God.
- Continue to learn to be content.
- Keep a short list with the Lord.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
Memory verses for the week Ephesians
3:14-17
14. For
this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
15. from
whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,
16. that
He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with
power through His Spirit in the inner man,
17. so
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted
and grounded in love,
6/13/2009 10:39 AM (Had the cable guy here to work on our system
and that is why the time is so long).
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