Leave and Cleave
Author: Sharon Verrett
www,saverrmarriage.com
When marriage was designed, a man was ordered to leave and
cleave, that is to leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, the
bible tell us this in Genesis 2:24. However, that time seems so very long ago
and things are different now, right.
Well ...the world may change and people may change, but
God's words stay the same. "But, that's in the Old Testament,"
scholars may say, "We are living under the New Testament laws of today's
Christians."
That is true, and the Old Testament is indeed for our
learning. When a man, keyword “man,” becomes a husband, his major priority
becomes his own wife and family. A wise person can learn from positive past
experience, needing not to reinvent the wheel.
Now reverting back ...this command was so very important
that it was indeed brought to the New Testament, the law we stand under today.
We can find the same statement repeated again in Matthew 19:5.
It is often said in the marriage vows, as it is stated,
" “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male
and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother
and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no
longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not
separate.”…remember that part? read more...
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