Hello:
Please pray for clarity in determining how I should proceed in my current relationship.
Thank you.
Only you and God know your challenges or concerns. I will pray that God will show you the best way forward. However, God will never accept or justify a relationship outside of His parameters. No matter how much we may wish Him to.
Peter
Hello Peter. Thank you for getting back to me. Can you please tell me what you mean? by “outside of His parameters?” That may help.
Yes. There is a right way and a wrong way to do family. There is the world’s family plan, and then there is God’s family plan. Family? It is pretty important to God. We can start back in Genesis. Back at the very Creation of Man.
“And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” Genesis 2:18
Then in Genesis 2:24
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
God Created Man, then Woman, then Marriage. All back in the beginning. Leaving aside the whole fall of man thing for a second, we see that family is the most important Non-God related thing on Earth. Then again, Family is not actually supposed to be non-God-related. A righteous living family is all about God. It is so important that it is the fifth Commandment, and the first with a promise.
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”Exodus 20:12
Here is God’s plan for the Family. We are born, learn and grow, leave our father and mother, come together and Marry, becoming one. God’s plan for us is that as parents, you take care of your children, raising them in the ways they should go, and then later in life, if needed, your children should be able and willing to care for you.
In an ideal world, the man, husband, should be the one going out into the world and providing for the family. The wife should be staying home, caring for the house, and raising the children. The children should be allowed to be children. Growing, playing, learning.
I understand we do not live in a perfect or ideal world. Today, most of the time, both parents need to go out and work. This puts a strain on the family unit. We have turned over the education of our children to others. Then, on top of that, we have even removed God from the entire system. We have created dumping grounds for our old and forsaken God’s plan for our family. Then we wonder why our divorce rate is rising. We wonder why our single-family homes are increasing in numbers as well. We wonder why youth crime is rising, and why our teen suicide rate is skyrocketing.
Following God’s plan leads to greater happiness, ease, and peace in our lives. I believe that a relationship between one man and one woman, committed for life, is the divinely ordained path. Any deviation from this—such as fornication, homosexuality, or divorce (except in cases of adultery or multiple spouses)—is considered a sin.
God will not condone, bless, or even simply recognize any version of relationship outside of His formula.
Hope this helps. God bless.
Peter
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