U.S. President resigns!
England's Queen abdicates!
Duke's coach K quits!
Each of these headlines would be shocking to most people. The last one would be the most shocking if you happen to live in North Carolina.
Why would these be shocking headlines?
Well the president takes an oath of office and we don't consider it proper for him to break that oath.
For the queen, fulfilling her duties it is a matter of birthright and an obligation to her people. Even though the queen's role in largely symbolic, the world would be shocked and disappointed if she decided to step down prematurely.
And Duke's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski is so loved and respected in North Carolina, that if he left it might be seen as an act of treason.
However, there is a far more serious type of commitment that is being broken, it's importance goes far beyond the resignation of a president, the abdication of a monarch, or the quiting of a beloved coach.
Yes, a most significant breach of commitment is happening in our world, and it is happening at an an alarming rate, yet it seldom makes the news!
Matt. 19:4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
A president makes a commitment to lead our country for a set time, and a monarch is expected to rule their people for as long as they are physically capable, and a coach might be expected to be loyal to his team, but only the marriage is a bond made before God and by God!
I would hope we would be slow to break any commitment or promise, but we must put the marriage covenant above all these other things when it comes to the seriousness and permanence of it.
Wouldn't it be good if divorces were so uncommon, that they were as big of a headline as a president resigning?
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