Scripture clearly gives only a couple of acceptable reasons for divorce, yet many people divorce for illegitimate reasons. Husbands and wives that do not keep their marriage covenant suffer consequences including financial ones that they often make even worse by hating & unduly seeking to individually enrich themselves using divorce proceedings.
Two people, focused on God’s will for their union and family, are better than one spiritually, physically, emotionally, and financially. A husband and wife team should seek God to share the same vision, thus enabling them to better coordinate lifestyles, schedules, activities, and expenses. This will always cost less than it does for divorced spouses who live apart. Largely because they do not have to spend twice as much for two separate living arrangements and household infrastructures. In addition, child support and alimony do not strain the family’s budget when spouses are united in Christ.
The angry atmosphere present during divorce is usually so contentious that the spouses spend all they can to try and take as many marital assets as they can away from one another, try to keep kids from visitation with their spouse, and spit venom on them through their comments. Many spend tens of thousands of dollars in attorney fees and court costs fighting to get the upper hand. This drags proceedings over a longer time-period and costs even more because the spouses are unable to get along much less compromise on a fair distribution of assets, etc.
Though the LORD can make up all that has been taken from a spouse illegitimately divorced, He knew from the beginning that divorce would be costly in so many respects including financial and seeks to save us from these circumstances if only both individuals will turn to Him, in intimacy, for direction so the mind of Christ will help them focus on His will, become the union He always wants them to be, and overcome every obstacle that is trying to keep them from that destiny. In that arena husband and wife become one and truly prosper. If you have already made the mistake of illegitimate divorce, seek to do things the LORD’s way going forward and resolve in your heart to not keep making the same mistake over and over.
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Proverbs 13:23, Matthew 5:32, Mark 10:2-12, Ephesians 5:28-33, Colossians 4:5-6
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