Sure, living under the same roof can be rough and marriage can be hard, but then again, since the fall, what relationship isn't?
Parents and progeny fuss and fight.
Friends become foes.
Churches split.
Relationships rupture.
Many marriages are a mess.
This morning, my quiet time took me to Matthew 19 and a
section on divorce. In the text, a group of Pharisees
have come up to try and trick Jesus – as was their custom. They toss out a question about whether
divorce is or isn’t lawful (and lawful “for any cause
at all”) and then misquote Moses hoping to trip and trap my Lord.
As is always the case, they fail in their folly. How do you ever outsmart omniscience? Jesus does a beautiful job of correcting
their twisted teaching by driving them all the way back to the institution of
marriage - marriage before sin made a
mess of it. He looks at the original portrait
of the Master rather than the marred imitation of the impostor.
There’s much I could write on this, but today’s post is actually not
one on marriage per se, or about divorce in particular – though it clearly has
a ripple effect on both.
This is a post about hard hearts. My hard heart, your hard heart, the ravaging
effect of hard hearts, and ultimately about the One who changes hard hearts.
