Doug Van Pelt

Sending out an S.O.S.

Howdy, folks. Today is my 14th Wedding Anniversary.

Last night I was locked out of the house for 3 hours. My wife went to see a movie, and the girls and I were going out for a walk to our mailbox with our dog. One rode roller blades, another a bicycle, and I hopped over the laser beam that guides the automatic garage door. I went over to the front door to see if both the deadbolt and door lock were locked and, sure enough, it was. It's amazing how fast 3 hours will pass by.

They say that Jesus' first miracle was at a wedding (but I think that maybe His calling of the disciples and they're coming/following was a miracle).

Religious people tried to trap Jesus with a question about marriage; to which He replied that people in the afterlife are neither married nor given in marriage.

Jesus taught that divorce was morally wrong (except for adultery) and that Moses permitted divorce simply because God's people had hard hearts. He quoted a couple verses from the Old Testament and added His own statement: "Haven't you read, that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh?' So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate."

In the book of Job, God gives Satan permission to take/destroy everything of Job, but not to touch him. Satan has all his cattle, livestock, and even his children killed. It must be the "one flesh" principle that Satan did not or could not touch Job's wife, even though she was specifically left off the "exception list" (which only included Job himself). This is a good example of the "one flesh" principle.

What a mystery yet a blessing marriage is.

Posted by Doug Van Pelt at August 15, 2006 08:58 AM