Malachi 2:16
"For I hate divorce," says the LORD
In the beginning, soul and flesh were wed together when God officiated the marriage of dust and breath. Man was a marriage.
When Adam choose sin by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, fruit which God forbid and forewarned by saying, "in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Gen 2:17), he experienced a divorce. His soul and his flesh, the dust and the breath would no longer liver happily ever after in marital bliss. Sin is separation.
As a result of the Fall, every man and woman is now born in the midst of a divorce hearing. From the moment of our conception until the day we sign the final papers, we are living as children of divorce. Our bodies and our breath are at odds and their separation is already in process, the paperwork has been filed, the proceedings are under way, and all that's left is the negotiation of terms, times, conditions, and custody.
The struggle for the salvation of our souls is a custody battle characterized as being between flesh and spirit. Yet, God's design is ultimately for reconciliation. God's plan is for covenant to be kept and body and breath to be reunited and fixed in marital fidelity.
God hates divorce so much that He murdered it on the cross and excommunicated it to the grave when His Son was resurrected from the womb of His tomb - body and breath reunited, back together again, and better than ever.
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