Riff's Christian Journal

This month my wife and I celebrated our forty ninth wedding anniversary. Over the years, we have in so many ways become almost like one person. It was like when Jesus said, “And the two shall become one.”

As a man and a woman, God has designed us so that we come together in a natural pleasurable physical way. No other form of intimacy can say the same. For no other form of sexual intimacy would be natural because we are not built that way.

I gave some thought as to why Jesus said what He did so I took a look at His statement about marriage in the Gospel of Matthew and found where Jesus said this:

Mat 19:4  And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Mat 19:5  And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and the two shall be one flesh?

Mat 19:6  Wherefore they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.

What is interesting is that there is so much more than what we can see at first glance. Jesus did explain that when God created mankind He made them to be a male and a female and He blessed them, and they were to be fruitful and to multiply. Moreover, He went on to say that, they are to be in one union and one in nature. In this way, God had ordained that this union, that we call marriage, is to be a union of one man and one woman. Nothing else will do.

In fact, the idea of marriage between a man and a woman is so important to God that He commanded us not to separate what He has joined together. Not only is this to be a command for the two that become married but to all of us, married and single. We are to acknowledge that it is by God’s command that a marriage is to be between one man and one woman, and that man should not even try to make marriage anything other than a union between one man and one woman. To do so would be disobedient to God’s will.

God has made men and women to be different in so many ways, both physical and mentally. A man cannot give to a child what only a mother can give, and a woman cannot give to a child what only a father can give. It takes both sexes to raise a child as God has ordained.

Marriage between a man and a woman is the true order of life that God has created.

As my wife and I have been together for these number of years, we realize that it has been by God’s grace that we have loved each other as He loves us. It was by Him that we have been joined together and it is by His will, and not man’s will, that we have stayed together.

It is said that others want to be joined together because of love, but it has also been said that, “Love does not rejoice in iniquity (sin), but in truth.” (1 Corinthians 13:6)

Maybe that is why God has said that marriage is only to be between a man and a woman. Any other choice is rejoicing in sin. That is why God has said, “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man separate.”