SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/28/2019 10:22 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Unbreakable Love”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:31
Message of the
verses: 31
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his
wife, and the two shall become one flesh’” (NKJV).
Ephesians 5:31 is a direct quote
from Genesis 2:24 and in Genesis chapter two God gives us another aspect of
creation along with Adam naming the different animals that God had
created. As Adam named the different
animals he noticed that all of them had mates and so this probably was
disturbing to him as he had no mate at the time. God solved that problem as He performed the
first operation and took a rib from Adam to use to create Eve and then Adam
stated what is seen in verse 24 of Genesis.
Marriage has not changed from the time that God created Adam and Eve in
the eyes of God and so marriage has in it what our theme is for today’s SD and
that is “unbreakable love.”
I have listened to different sermons
or talks in marriage ceremonies along with marriages seminars that talk of the
importance of breaking it off between the parents and their children who have
gotten married. When parents continue to
try and rule their children after they get married you will find nothing but
trouble. I think a wise parent can
suggest things to their newly married children, but suggesting is much
different than trying to rule over them.
They are a new unit and need to operate as being a newly formed unit as
they certainly are in the eyes of God.
John MacArthur writes “Proskollao (cleave) literally means to
be glued or cemented together. Husbands
and wives are to leave their parents and to cleave to, be cemented to, each
other. They break one set of ties as
they establish the other, and the second is more binding and permanent that the
first.”
We read in Malachi 2:16 that God
says “I hate divorce,” and God has always hated divorce and will continue to
hate divorce. The reason is that it
destroys that which He has ordained to be unbreakable. God hates divorce on any terms and for any
reason. We see that Jesus spoke of this
with the Pharisees and told them that they were not to divorce their wife for
any reason with the exception of adultery.
When He was talking about adultery He was talking about continued
adultery, and not a first time and then never happen again. Jesus Christ is always forgiving believers
and so husbands and wives are to be the same, forgiving one another. Jesus Christ does not separate Himself from
believers who sin and so that should be true of husbands and wives.
In
the OT we see that Israel was repeatedly unfaithful to God, and that
unfaithfulness is often referred to in the OT as spiritual adultery. When God chose Israel as His people He
determined to love them with an everlasting love as seen in Jeremiah 31:3. It was only after unrelenting spiritual
adultery and rejection of Him that God finally gave Israel a divorce: “"And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel,
I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister
Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also” (Jer. 3:8). However that was not to say that God had
rejected the true believers within the nation, who were secure in His saving
grace as can be seen in Mal. 3:16-18, and with the quotation of those verses we
will end this SD. “16 Then those who
feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD gave attention and heard it,
and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD
and who esteem His name. 17 “They will be Mine," says the LORD of hosts,
"on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will spare them
as a man spares his own son who serves him." 18 So you will again
distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God
and one who does not serve Him.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Anyone who has been married for any length of
time knows that when two sinful people come together in marriage there are
bound to be some troubles from time to time, but when that happens I am to
remember that this covenant that I made with my wife is permanent. It has been permanent for over 46 years by
the grace of God.
My Steps of Faith for Today: I had a very profitable lunch meeting with my
Pastor yesterday talking about humility and the filling of the Holy Spirit, and
for that I am thankful to God and to him.
Today’s quotation from “Love in Action:”
“Love insists we do something. Feelings follow action. Feelings are the fruit, not the root, of
love. If you give your enemy something
to eat or drink, something happens to your feelings. When you invest yourself in someone, you
begin to feel differently toward him or her.”
8/28/2019 10:56 AM
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