Malachi - Week 3 - Day 5

Guard Your Heart 

READ 

Malachi 2:15-16 

15 Didn’t the LORD make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his. And what does he want? Godly children from your union. So guard your heart; remain loyal to the wife of your youth. 16 “For I hate divorce!” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. “So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.” 

This passage takes the reader back to Genesis regarding the husband and wife being one. It is not just an Old Testament truth because it is also referred to in the New Testament. This high view of marriage is what the Bible teaches. Those who teach something else do not follow what God says in the only book He has inspired. 

REFLECT 

Do you agree with the high view of marriage that God has? 

RESPOND 

For references in the Old and New Testaments to the husband and wife being one flesh, see Genesis 2:24 and Ephesians 5:31. For those who reject this teaching, see Romans 1:18-32. Talk about these passages with a fellow believer.