When Divorce Does Happen

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. John 8:7

No one sets sets out in their marriage relationship determined to get divorced. Clearly they were in love on their wedding day. What happened? Obviously divorce happens far too frequently. But how should we respond? I think their is a good deal of shame when someone gets divorce. They might think, "What wrong with me?" or "I'm such a failure." This will never be easy.

When a marriage ends to divorce the bible calls that adultery. Adultery is more than infidelity, it is a breaking of the marriage covenant. In fact there might not be any infidelity involved. So what should you do if you're divorced? Live. Move on. In John 8 an adulteress woman is brought before Jesus and in this case there is infidelity occurring. Jesus seeing there are no accusers tells her he does not condemn her either. But he does says,"go, and sin no more."

We can all learn from our mistakes. When we see our sin, we can trust Jesus for forgiveness. He paid for all our sin on the cross and when we confess he is Lord and believe God raised him from the dead we are saved. He promises to forgive and he cannot lie. If you are married, receive Jesus. If you're divorced, receive Jesus. And one day maybe God will bring another mate along.