Abandoning Our Families
As people who have been loved by a covenant-keeping God, we ought to keep our covenants to one another in marriage. God hates divorce because of what it does and what it will continue to do.
Author
Travis Agnew
Lead Pastor
Marriage
Abandoning Our Families
As people who have been loved by a covenant-keeping God, we ought to keep our covenants to one another in marriage. God hates divorce because of what it does and what it will continue to do.
Travis Agnew
Lead Pastor
Consider This
- To the married, don’t fixate on the catastrophes of others’ divorces so much that you overlook the compromises present in your own marriage.
- To the divorced, there is no way to avoid your pain, but God can use your story to protect another from similar regret.
- To the single, follow God according to the clear standards within the Bible.
Avoid This
- Disregard (2:10) – When you begin to disregard God’s expectations, no sin is beyond your justification.
- Dissatisfaction (2:11-12) – When a person feels dissatisfied in a marriage, he or she will seek a forbidden fix.
- Deceit (2:13) – You cannot deceive God into approving your religious offerings while you abandon your marital commitments.
- Divorce (2:14) – When you divorce the covenant with your spouse, you are also forsaking the covenant with your God.
- Devastation (2:15) – A marital drift will lead to a couple’s divorce but end with a family’s devastation.
- Desertion (2:16) – Marriage provides a loving covering, but divorce brings a painful desertion.
Implement This
- To the married, do everything you possibly can to see your marriage finish well.
- To the divorced, God hates your divorce even more than you do, but He doesn’t hate you.
- To the single, never settle for anything less than God’s best when it comes to protecting your purity and selecting your partner.
- To the children, learn what you want to repeat and what you want to reject from the marriages around you.
