What God Joined Together - Family Radio

This leads us into another question. Would our loving, forgiving, heavenly
Father, our God, expect those who are divorced to live the single life in total
celibacy
This question can be answered from two vantage points. First, consider a
marriage that was broken by God; a widow with five children, one of whom is
a child with special needs. God has taken her husband by death.
Biblically she is free to remarry, and if any family needs a husband and a
father, it is certainly this one. In actuality, marriage for this widow is highly
unlikely. It would be difficult to find a man to be father to five children but
almost impossible to find a man willing to take on the additional
responsibilities of a child with special needs.
Did God leave this poor widow in an impossible, terrible situation God
is perfect in His actions and His wisdom. When God took this husband by
death, God knew that the widow could continue a meaningful and happy life
without the presence of a husband and father for her children.
Her life would be different from what the world considers ideal. She would
need the help of others, and she would have to constantly cry out to God for
wisdom and patience. But she would find that God’s grace is sufficient. In fact,
she could experience in a dynamic way the reality of such promises as “I will
never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5). God’s grace is sufficient
for those whose marriages have been broken by His action, and His grace is
sufficient for those whose marriages have been tampered with by man’s action
of divorce.
Second, in our sinful, finite minds, we think that because the intimacies
enjoyed in marriage were a necessary part of our life, it would be nearly
impossible to live a celibate life after divorce. “How can I be expected to live
the rest of my life without any further intimacies with the opposite sex Surely
a good God does not intend that for me,” we might reason.
God designed us. God put the body chemistry within us so that we can
enjoy the intimacies of marriage. It is God who assures us that it is possible
for humans to live happy lives without the benefit of such intimacies. God
declares in I Corinthians 7:27, “Art thou loosed from a wife seek not a wife.”
He says in verses 32-34:
But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for
the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that
is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please
his wife. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The
unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy
both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of
the world, how she may please her husband.
These verses show that there are special advantages available to the
unmarried. In these verses, God is not speaking to a certain group within the
company of believers; He is speaking to all who have become children of God.
Jesus teaches in Matthew 19:12:
50 What God hath joined together...