Before Jesus came adultery was defined only by physical intimacy with someone who is not your husband or wife ,but Jesus took it into a whole new level by saying that if you looked into someone and lusted in your heart , you have already committed adultery.
Adultery is the legal reason for divorce because it breaks the covenant of loyalty and faithfulness.
I wonder how many married people are living together with a broken covenant?
In God's eyes they are divorced no matter how many family pictures they post on social media or pictures of their spouse or even they keep on having children.
If you have lusted in your heart after another person your covenant is already annuled.You can fool people but you can never fool God.
Jesus' standard for love and marriage is very high.He wants wives to be loved as he loved the church and gave his own life for her. In the book of song of songs he gives us a glimpse of how women should be loved and treated in a relationship.
Sometimes the covenant is invalid from the start if it was based on lies and deception.
So not every married couple is actaully married in God's eyes.There are many who stay together for other reasons like keeping their image or because of house or car loans.
Back to the reasons, there is another important reason which is rarely mentioned and that is being married to a non believer or they become non be likevel during marriage.
Paul has a clear command about this in 1 Corinthians 7
" but if the unbelieving partner separates ,let it be so.In such cases the brother or sister is not bound .God has called you to live in peace."
There is another verse on the importance of not being yoked with unbelievers because this will lead to conflict and will ruin the marriage.
In these cases the divorce is biblical and legal.kan
If you are considering divorce because of these reasons don't waste more time and do it ,because people will try to convince you to stay longer ,work harder and expect them to change but you will only waste more time in the wrong relationship.
May be you are serving the Lord and people are trying to stop you now because you are divorced , you should never stop because God did'nt say: because you were married I called you ,
but he said: before you were formed in the womb I called you .
That means anything that happens later do not cancel the call unless you do.
The anointing will not disappear after the divorce ,but it actually increases because now we have more time for prayer ,worship ,study and fellowship with the spirit.
My advice to every believer : single,married or divorced is to focus first on your relationship with God because this is the only thing that will help you no matter the season and will nourish your spirit and soul and give you the true satisfaction that only God can give.
Divorce is a new start in life and brand new opportunity to become all God wants you to become.The freedom that comes with it is unbelievable.
Now all the sudden you are no longer bound to the heavy traditions and customs.
Jesus said my yoke is easy and this is very true because when we are joined with him we move together in the same direction with the same rythem ,his power becomes ours and through him we can do all things.
I believe God is raising this group of people to higher levels of influence because he wants to show that he is also God of the divorced
In USA the new first lady was a divorced woman who got remarried and this is the first time I think such thing happens though you don't hear about it in any church .I believe God is promoting this group of people regardless of people's approval or not because Jesus himself went through the same thing.
Mary ( the earthly mother of Jesus) was actually supposed to be divorced after she told Joseph about her pregnancy.He had only tow choices according to Torah: either divorce her publicly or privately , but since he loved her, he wanted to divorce her privately that's why God had to stop him through a dream and Jesus was born as a result.
Jesus lived with this stigma his whole life but he never allowed it to hinder his plan or his mission on earth which he completed successfully.
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