June 27

Mark 10:9
“What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder”— Mark 10:99What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Mark 10:9).
IT is not to be expected that ungodly men and women will bow to the authority of Christ as to marriage or any other matter. But those who profess to honor His name should be willing to suffer any inconvenience or discomfort rather than violate His Word. He instituted marriage for the blessing of the race, and especially for the protection of the children. It is this that Malachi stresses (Mal. 2:14, 1514Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. 15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. (Malachi 2:14‑15)). The children suffer most when the home is broken up. Yet the selfishness of those who have brought these little ones into the world will lead unsubject souls to destroy the home they have set up, in order to gratify their unbridled desires.
“The voice that breathed o’er Eden,
The earliest wedding-day.
The primal marriage blessing,
It hath not passed away.
Still in the pure espouse!
Of Christian man and maid,
The Holy Three are with us,
The threefold grace is said,
For dower of blessed children,
For love and faith’s sweet sake,
Far high mysterious union
Which nought on earth may break.”