Marriage is for the lifetime. When one marries, that union is meant for the lifetime, “til death do us part”. Oh how great it would be if that were the prevailing sentiment in society. Man leaves his family to be with his wife for the duration of his life and the wife is to devote herself to her husband for that same timeline.
“3And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, ‘Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?’ 4He answered, ‘Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5and said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”? 6So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” — Matthew 19:3-6 (ESV)
Marriage is a bind for a lifetime and one shall not leave that union. Where love is nothing else can separate. When there is love and compassion and understanding, there is a desire to continue and fight.
I will be the first to admit that not every day is all roses, butterflies, and rainbows with my wife Lori, and I know that she will say the same thing. There are days that we just do not like each other very much. The thing is, those are moments in time and there is no loss of love. Our union was built on Christ and love and those never fail. One moment in time does not trump a lifetime. There has not been a legitimate reason to do away with our love based on a moment in time.
When there is a union between two, that union is for a lifetime and should be honored as such. “Thou shalt not leave” should be the rallying cry for all in a lifetime relationship with another.
When you are looking at your relationship with your spouse, what timeline are you looking at for the relationship? Are you looking at the moments in time? What if you were to approach from the view of lifetime union and took the mantra of “Thou shalt not leave”?
Trevor's Thoughts 