WORD OF GOD - MK 10:6-9

MARK 10:6-9

But from the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female.” “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.’

---- my own,

When God created the human race He intended the bonds of marriage to be indissoluble until death because the two were one flesh. Marriage is a covenantal relationship in which there is an outpouring of self in love one to the other just as I poured Myself out for My Bride, the Church. Marriage is designed by God to foreshadow the great marriage feast between the Lamb of God and His Bride, the Church at the end of the age. This is why anyone who in any way is responsible for the separation of the two whom God has joined in marriage, is guilty of breaking God's commandment. To break the commandments of God is to sin against Him and the consequence of sin is separation from God.