22nd, January, 2022

START THE YEAR ON THE RIGHT FOOT Pt.22

Mal 2:16 "For I Hate Divorce," says the Lord:

KEEP YOUR MARRIAGE INTACT

I ministered on the assembly of a secondary one morning. I do that often when I'm not on the rural mission field. On this particular morning, I was led by the Spirit of God to follow the SSS1 students into their classroom after assembly. When I got there, I led the song, "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine". After we all sang, I was led to pray. In my prayers, I found myself praying against the spirit of hopelessness and depression arising from issues at home. Unknown to me, one of the girls in the class was badly depressed because her parents were divorced. After the prayer, I saw this girl crying. She opened up to me what was happening in her family. I counselled and prayed with her.

That incident made me realize the damage caused by divorce. In my heart, I had compassion on the girl more than I would on the father or mother if they were visibly standing in front of me. That scenario looked to me like the girl already had mental torture affecting everything about her life and future except grace intervenes. A research shows that most people from divorced homes are likely to experience same in their own marriages because it has been ingrained in their sub conscious that one can walk out of marriage at will. Same happens to children who are exposed to physical abuse. If a boy sees his father beating his mother or a girl sees her mom abusing her father verbally, while that scenario may disgust them as little children, it registers in their sub conscious and they may find themselves doing same in their future home. A sociological research showed that most inmates in a particular prison were products of broken homes.

The devil is working round the clock to tamper with God's instituted order for marriage. Many are leaving the marriage institution faster than people are entering into it. This year, make up your mind to make your marriage work. The scriptural formula has always been “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord”... Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (Eph5:22,25). The husband's work to keep the marriage intact is to love his wife without reservations&condition. Love her enough to overlook her flaws and to lovingly correct the ones you can correct. The wife's duty is to submit to her husband as unto the Lord. You may be higher in rank and career but you have to be under the leadership of your husband. Don't subscribe to foolish philosophies of men that is wrecking homes today. Your marriage shouldn't make your children unfortunate and suffer unnecessary mental torture. Divorce makes it hard to raise godly children. Break that evil cycle. Your home shouldn't add to the rising statistics of broken marriages. You and your spouse should prayerfully decide to keep your home intact.