Becoming One Flesh

God Created the World

God Created the Family

Matthew19:3-6 The Message (MSG)

3 One day the Pharisees were badgering him: “Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
4-6 He answered, “Haven’t you read in your Bible that the Creator originally made man and woman for each other, male and female? And because of this, a man leaves father and mother and is firmly bonded to his wife, becoming one flesh—no longer two bodies but one. Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart.”

For Reflection

We find today that procreation produces a combination of both male and female into a unique person yet having the composition of each parent and their ancestry, indeed one flesh eternally. God created the organic union of two sexes so that we might have a physical path to eternal human existence.  God also created the human spiritual capacity to accept communal responsibility.

Christ faced entrapment by the Pharisees by setting up a legal conundrum. But Christ refused to be ensnared by the question. Jesus's response addressed an issue at the core of civil structure as well as a spiritual one. A cavalier attitude toward marriage and divorce did not serve the relational commandment to act in love in the service of the common good. Are we also entrapped by our limited perception of God's universe? Do we also create conundrums by not looking beyond an event and into God's intention for loving relationships?    

Pray

Pray so that you will be more able to see beyond the conventional societal assumptions into God's intentions for human relationships.

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