Divorce

Just a quick note on the ever-growing popularity of divorce. I know full well I'm only seventeen years old, I'm perfectly happy in my relationship with my first boyfriend, and I don't understand the commitment it takes to make a marriage work. I don't even understand what makes couples in high school break up. I mean, why would you go out with someone if you don't like who they are? Why date somebody just for their looks? If you know nothing about their personality and their dreams and their lives, why would you spend so much time with them? I love my boyfriend very much, but we started out as friends... actually, we started out as enemies, became friends, and gradually became interested in each other as something more. I know on my end, I was not that head over heels for him until we started going out, but I knew enough about him to make me want to know him more....

Now, my question is, why would you marry someone if you hadn't even gone through the above process? Why have sex and get pregnant, and then have to get married. Take the time to understand the person you're with... their hopes, their dreams, their futures. Don't get so caught up in the passion and heat of the moment that you ignore the logistics!

God created marriage as a one man-one woman union. There's a reason that the vows say, "Til death do us part." In Genesis, Adam said upon meeting Eve, "Now, this is someone whose bones came from my bones, whose body came from my body."

Matthew chapter 10 says, "Then Jesus left that place and went into the area of Judea and across the Jordan River. Again, crowds came to him, and he taught them as he usually did. Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tried to trick him. They asked, 'Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?' Jesus answered, 'What did Moses command you to do?' They said, 'Moses allowed a man to write out divorce papers and send her away.' Jesus said, 'Moses wrote that command because you were stubborn. But when God made the world, he made them male and female. So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one body. So there are not two, but one. God has joined the two together, so no one should separate them.' Later, in the house, his followers asked Jesus again about the question of divorce. He answered, 'Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman is guilty of adultery against her. And the woman who divorces her husband and marries another man is also guilty of adultery.' "

People, divorce is wrong. Adultery is wrong. Sex before marriage is wrong. It joins two people together in ways that cannot be separated, no matter how hard you try.