Healthy children come from healthy homes. However, children devastated by divorce must overcome many hurts and scars. Many never get over the anguish and heartbreak of homes split by divorce. A child needs a haven to harbor him and an anchor of godly parents who love him, each other, and their God. When children are denied this security, they receive wounds not easily healed.
Hosea, the heartbroken prophet who personally knew the ravages of sin in his home, says: They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind (Hosea 8:7). For many years, our society has deemphasized the importance of permanence in marriage, and now the reaping time has come. Safety in our streets starts in the home where children receive a godly upbringing, not in increased police protection. And our restless society will wax worse because we have willingly embraced trial marriages and polygamous behavior.
Malachi speaks roughly to faithless Israel. He clearly calls them to repentance and tells them why they have no happiness, peace, or prosperity: Because the LORD has been witness Between you and the wife of your youth, With whom you have dealt treacherously; Yet she is your companion And your wife by covenant. But did He not make them one, Having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth (Malachi 2:14-16).
“Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts. And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?”
Malachi 2:10-17 KJV
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