Culture’s
Twisted View on Marriage
Prior to
reading this thought, please read Matthew 19:1-12.
Marriage is an institution that was
established and is initiated by God. Today, however, the media, the culture,
the government, and even some churches treat marriage as an unimportant
institution.
Why does the younger generation of America
have crumbling marriages, broken families, devastated hearts, and a rule
twisting spirit? One of the answers lies
in the viewpoint that many have toward marriage. On many TV stations, on any
given day of the week, programs are featuring two people happily fornicating or
a “needed” divorce is taking place.
The devil understands all
too well the folly of allowing children to grow up with a view that says that
fornication is ok; so he uses his demons, the World, and the media to do so. The
fragmented foundation that the devil sows into people’s lives obscures the
proper view that Christ wants to instill in us about sex, male roles, female
roles, and marriage relationships. Could this be the reason why sexually
transmitted diseases are appearing to rise? And why so many families break up
and so many children have to “brave the waters” of everyday life without a
mother or a father to lovingly comfort them?
I will conclude with the following
verses, but you don’t have to end this thought. You can still dwell on the
topics mentioned and pray.
“I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be
not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of
God.” ~ Romans 12:1-2 KJV
“And he answered and said
unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them
male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father
and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath
joined together, let not man put asunder.” ~ Matthew 19:4-6 KJV
