Being One

 DEVOTION

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

BEING ONE

Matt 19:3-6

3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?" 4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'   5 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'? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." 

NIV

There is going to be more discussion regarding this marriage and divorce situation, but for now, let us simply take the word as what it says. God made us male and female and that is all he made. He made a man, and he took a rib from that man to make a woman. When God first made that man, he took dirt or the dust of the ground forming man in His own image. It is as if God got down on his hands and knees and formed man, perhaps spitting on the dust to make a clay-like substance to form man, and then it is as if God bent over and breathed his very breath into the nostrils of man, bringing life into that form. What an amazing thought that we have the very breathe of God in us. Then he caused this man to fall into a sleep and took a rib from him to form a woman, a suitable helpmate. It is again, incredible to see the providence and will of God. He did not take bone from the head of man putting the woman in charge of man, nor did God take a bone from the man’s foot, making woman subject to man, to be at his feet. However, God took a rib from the side of the man with the intent that woman should walk through life at the side of man, as an equal in the sight of mankind and God. Nevertheless, because woman came from man and man comes from woman, being born in the flesh as Jesus was born of Mary, God still sees this man and woman that he created male and female as one being. God sees man and woman joined together as one for both were created from one. Without getting into this heretical culture, we live in today, there are simply two beings, a man and a female. We are born one or the other and are intended to find each other to become one through the bond of marriage. Jesus does make some differences as we will get to when he speaks of those who live a solitary life, for several reasons, but those are of the will of men it would seem, for it is by the will of God that the two shall become one, that God intended from the beginning that male and female should be mates, that it is not the will of God that either male or female should live a solitary life. If that were the case Adam would have never known Eve in the biblical sense and no sons or daughters would have been born to them and they would not fulfill His command to multiply and fill the earth. Therefore, there can be no separation of what God has joined together. Certainly, that can be marriages that are of the will of man, or mankind, and are not blessed by God and end in separation, again by the will of man. The point is that a marriage should be due to the will of God, for He created the suitable helpmate for Adam. Therefore, as we are joined by God, we are one and should remain one.