The life partner (Part 2)
The best way to understand marriage is to go back to the beginning when God created the first marriage. In the book of Genesis, we see that God created the first man (Adam) and He created all animals. But after having created everything, God realized that something was missing. He realized that all his creation was good but the man should not be alone. He said: " The Lord God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him” (Genesis 2: 18).
The verse we just read clearly shows that it was not Adam who decided to look for Eve but God himself concluded that it was not good for Adam to be left alone and that he needed a helper suitable for him. It was easy for Adam because he could only see Eve. Today it is a bit difficult for singles because there are billions of boys and girls on the planet, but later I will talk about the choice of the life partner.
If you read the first part of this teaching, you have certainly noticed that marriage was a failure in the world where in some countries more than half of the couples are divorced. We can ask ourselves the question: Why are there so many divorces although it is a divine institution? Marriage is not an idea of a man but God’s. This is why you will find it in all the people in the entire world.
To answer the question of why there are so many divorces in the world, we must first understand the important of household in the eyes of God. When God says it is not good that the man should be alone, it means that He loves family life. God loves the family relationship because it reflects His glory. This is why the Church is biblically considered as the bride of Christ (Ephesians 5: 23-24).
The relationship between husband and wife reflects the love between Christ and the Church. The devil knows that by destroying couples, he destroys the glory of God. If households are destroyed, children (fruits of the household) are confused and suffer from the separation that was never the will of God because He clearly says: " For the Lord God of Israel says That He hates divorce... "(Malachi 2: 16).
In the third part, I will talk about the choice of a partner and then we will talk about the main causes of divorce because the devil uses it as his battle field by taking advantage of the ignorance of the people of God. This teaching deals with the married, divorced, widowed and single who think getting married one day.
To be continued in Part 3
Chris Ndikumana
