Marriage No Longer Honored

Today I read an article called For first time, unmarried households reign in US. As we drift away from our Biblical foundations the social structure of our country continues to erode. The article says, "A new survey has shown that traditional marriage has ceased to be the preferred living arrangement in the majority of US households." As a child of divorce that breaks my heart for so many kids.

Another fact I saw recently said that 1/3 of children born in American are born out of wedlock. Marriage is not honored by most Americans. Couples live together. Families made up of unwed couples are more prone to violence. When they do marry they are more likely to divorce.

Fornication abounds. Married couples divorce. Adultery is common. Covenants are not honored. The children of these broken homes are the ones hurt most. Too many innocent kids are paying the price for their parent’s selfishness.

The Bible says, "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral." (Hebrews 13:4) God designed family to be the foundation of a civil society. It was designed to be that from the beginning.

When Jesus taught on marriage he appealed to the way marriage was intended to be from the beginning of time. Matthew 19:3-9 says "Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?" "Haven’t you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." "Why then," they asked, "did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?" Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."

We need to honor marriage by returning to God's standards for marriage and our laws should reflect that. Our society will stand or fall based upon our values, the strength of our families and our faith. If we can't keep our deepest commitments to family how can we be trusted to keep any commitments? And how can a society exist without trust, fidelity and honoring our most basic cherished institution... Family.

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