These days, social workers report what is likely a trend among young families today—more single fathers as sole parents. Moms have flown the coop, seeking self-satisfaction from increased time for themselves, greener financial pastures, new bed partner(s), or chemically-induced escape from this life—the same kinds of temptations which has been luring fathers from their responsibilities and joys of loving others as God loves them. “Progressive” politicians encourage this trend, desiring that the “village” (the state) raise the children in order to produce politically reliable subjects who will be incapable of, ironically, self-fulfillment. They will have no choice but to be obedient while dependent on the “progressives” for food and shelter.
But God’s plan for His people came from the beginning, all the way back to Genesis 2, where it is written that God gave Adam dominion over the beasts of the field, birds of the air, almost everything in creation. God declared that “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” (Verse 18) Later, a serpent questioned God’s honesty (“Did God really say…?”) and tempted Eve with self-fulfillment (“You will be like God…”) Eve quoted God with complete accuracy—a resounding “yes”—but ate of the fruit anyway. The delusion was preferred to being “fit”. That mistake is played out today by 48 year old men who think they are 18, or the wife and mother who decides she will not be happy being a fit wife and mother, and parents today who take the easy route and encourage their children to follow their fantasies including being the physical opposite of what God designed.
As written in Mark 10:1ff, some Pharisees “came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Jesus then tightened the divorce law of Moses, limiting moral divorce only on the grounds of adultery. But are Man’s (and Woman’s) hearts softer today? No, as there is little or no shame today for adultery, which is any sex outside of marriage. Yet Jesus made all of the Laws of God tougher to follow, not easier. Which is easier—not murdering or not liking a person? (Matthew 5:21-22) Is it more difficult to refrain from stealing your neighbor’s car than being jealous of it? (Mark 7:17-23)
Jesus made it tougher for fallen Man because He gathers His children together and as grafted us believers into His family. No fantasy, no delusion or serpent’s scheme from fallen Man , we believers—the children of God—live on the promised and sure love from the arranged marriage between the Lamb and His Church in His kingdom that has no end. Gloria Deo—Glory to God