神为婚姻所定立的旨意
马可福音十章1至9节
1耶稣从那里起身，来到犹太的境界并约但河外。众人又聚集到他那里，他又照常教训他们。
2有法利赛人来问他说：人休妻可以不可以？意思要试探他。
3耶稣回答说：摩西吩咐你们的是甚么？
4他们说：摩西许人写了休书便可以休妻。
5耶稣说：摩西因为你们的心硬，所以写这条例给你们；
6但从起初创造的时候，神造人是造男造女。
7因此，人要离开父母，与妻子连合，二人成为一体。
8既然如此，夫妻不再是两个人，乃是一体的了。
9所以神配合的，人不可分开。
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基督与门徒由北面的加利利一直走到南面的犹大。他们已经愈来愈接近耶路撒冷；而对基督来说，祂知道自己快要踏上十字架的道路。
犹太人的领袖一见到耶稣，就立即争取机会去试探祂，希望找到攻击祂的把柄。于是，他们便拿出神颁布给摩西及犹太百姓的一些律法，来诘问耶稣的看法。
主耶稣却借着这个机会，重申神为婚姻所定下的旨意。神原初的心意，是要夫妻二人白头到老，永不分开。而且，夫妻二人成为一体的关系，更重于其他的人伦关系。只因人达不到神的要求，所以神才容许夫妇出现离婚。
神的旨意至今也没有改变。神期望做丈夫的永远忠于自己的妻子；做妻子的永远忠于自己的丈夫。二人相爱的心，将紧紧地将他们连结在一起，厮守终身，永不分离。
然而，今天的社会已难寻这种美满的婚姻。当婚姻关系出现问题时，愈来愈多夫妇轻言离婚，也不愿意付出努力去作出改善。
但神的心意是要我们作基督徒的，在世人面前见证夫妻二人活在爱中的幸福婚姻。因此，年轻的信徒必须认真地面对婚姻的要求、审慎地选择将来的配偶。我们必须将这终身大事交在神的手中，寻求神的带领，并认真改正自己的缺点；这样，按照神的旨意，必能获得美满幸福、恒久不渝的婚姻。
祷告：
「主啊，愿我的婚姻和家庭能讨你的喜悦和祝福。愿别人看见你是我们的一家之主。」
GOD'S PLAN FOR FAMILY LIFE
Mark 10:1-9
1 Then He arose from there and came to the region of Judea by the other side of the Jordan.And multitudes gathered to Him again, and as He was accustomed, He taught them again.
2 The Pharisees came and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? ” testing Him.
3 And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you? ”
4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.”
5 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6 But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’
7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Message
Christ and his disciples had travelled down from Galilee in the north to Judea in the south. Now he was much closer to Jerusalem and the cross.
Some of the Jewish leaders tried to trick him by asking questions about the laws given by God to Moses and the Jewish people.
Our Lord took the opportunity of emphasising again God's plan for family life. From the beginning God planned that a husband and wife should live together until death separated them. It was a union that took first place over other family relationships. Only because men and women did not live up to God's standards, did God allow divorce to come into the picture.
God's plan is still the same today. God wants a husband to be faithful to his wife and the wife to be faithful to her husband. The bond of true love should hold them together as well as their faithfulness.
This is not easy today. So many people find it easier to separate than to live up to the demands of married life.
But God wants to show to the world how wonderful it is to be joined together in love. Christian young people should be very careful in giving themselves to one another in marriage. If they will allow God to choose their partner for them, there is every possibility that they will live happily ever after!
A PRAYER:
Lord help our family life to be what you want it to be. Let others see Jesus living in our home.