True Marriage Is Binding for Life

In the light of God’s Holy Word, the true marriage contract lasts until death causes inevitable separation.

“And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Mark 10:8,9).

From the saying of our Lord, we derive the fact that only death can terminate marriage contracts, and therefore the need arises to make the right choice. The choice should not be left to parents or well-wishers, because it is important that conjugal love, prompted by divine love, should exist between the two, for this, and this alone, can never fail in marital life. The motives that should prompt true marriage are divine love and a God-given desire for companionship, a home and family. In such a union God is glorified, because its motives are unselfish. Perfect love and not lust is its keynote. When any union is prompted by lust or unholy desire, it often results in disunity, selfishness, and self-glorification, and eventually ends in separation, divorce, and remarriage. But this one point is clear and vivid, that God hates separation and divorce.

“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” (Malachi 2:14-16).