Psalms 142:4, I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
A lonely person stands upright in the midst of the crowd and goes unnoticed. It is an ever day occurrence and the crowd is the Christian assembly that meets on Sundays. I am referring to the broken, confused, and distraught divorced Christian. The one who is not seeing clearly and may have been cast down and trampled over by the utter rejection of their brothers and sisters in Christ.
Let us be honest, how do you react when this happens to a couple in your church. Which partner do you fellowship with and can you really look them in the face without looking at them as people who have just gone through some tragedy. In the end, usually one will have already stopped going to church and eventually the other will leave. It is just a hard thing for all, and most of us are glad they are gone so we are not burdened by their presence.
But really, we are not talking about the act of incest, murder, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, denial of Christ, adultery, etc…. We are talking about an action that breaks the bond of marriage and forever becomes a stigma of the man and woman involved.
Is the action a sin or is it sin that causes the action or is there any sin involved. Here is the question, If sin causes this action or if the action causes sin then is it a sin that should be treated as almost unpardonable, I say it is not. But what does divorce do that other actions by Christians do not do?
- Is it good for a Christian to view the godless programs put out by the godless Hollywood crowd?
- Is it good that a Christian goes and shops or eats after Church when they are participating in a day they recognize as God’s day of rest?
- Is it good that a Christian may be involved in the support of certain organizations that are contrary to the God they serve, even if it is just the buying of some product?
- Is it good that a Christian participates in the events of the secularized Christmas by setting up trees, recognizing Santa Claus, and buying presents and acting the same as the lost?
- Is it good that a Christian can only give God a few hours each week for worship and praise, and even then they are anxious to get it over with?
- Is it okay for a Christian to fall into most any sin and all they have to do is repent and tell their stories and it is considered a testimony?
- Is it okay for a Christian to judge when we are told not to judge?
John 3:19, And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 3:20, For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
I know this sounds extreme, but until we are on the receiving end, we usually do not completely empathize and understand the complete picture.
This is not to justify the act of divorce, but instead may it be to awaken us to the harsh reality of divorce and the need to consider divorced individuals as a mission field among the great fields of Human wreckage within our Christian culture.
We have a duty to all brothers and sisters who have fallen down. They are not hard to find or distinguish for if they are born again, they will be waiting (although they may not realize this) for the relief that comes from the Savior. For most, it will only happen when you and I bring the hope of Christ back to them.
May God grant us victory in this view of restoration for the fallen down and discarded broken Christians who are being trampled by the demons of hell.
If you are one that has gone through divorce and you have tried to hide from your Father because of the guilt;
- either because of the sin that led you to divorce,
- or the actions of the church toward your actions,
- or because of the trickery of Satan in turning you away from the Lord
- or maybe even something that is not listed here but led to divorce or came about by divorce,
And you are trying to carry this burden of guilt, and perhaps there is pain and you are even blaming God, rest assure, you have not lost your Salvation nor has God stopped loving you. God loves us, He just hates divorce. But remember, God hates anything that is contrary to His will and rightly so, He is God. Yet He never hates His children and when we let our actions come between us and God, then that is the sin and it must be confessed, repented, turned away from, and left nailed to the Cross of the Savior.
To all who have faced divorce, please come back to the Father, the Christians you thought were so judgmental may not have been like you thought they were. It may have been the wiles of the devil working against you during your time of trial and hardship and you placed the blame on those who loved you the most, even your Father, Holy God Almighty.
We are all created by the one Creator. God is no respecter of persons and there is none that seeks after the Lord, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. It is in these elements of the word of God that we are all the same and in need of the Lamb of God who was slain for the sins of the world.
But the Lamb of God not only took our sins and buried them with death, He overcame death so we could have victory over death. In this victory rests our eternal life and nothing can take it away from us because God has sealed us until the day of our redemption.
But to live now in this world does not mean we have to accept the loneliness as mentioned in the Psalm at he beginning of this article. As in Daniel, we are not alone in the stormy trials or when it seems like God indeed has left us. God is the only for sure thing in our life and He is always with us even in the fire.
Daniel 3:25, He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Divorce Treatise One
