God set up the building block of society from the beginning.

Genesis 2:24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

Marriage is the original plan. A coming together for the purpose of building each other up to be the person God intends for you to be. “Complementarity” is the technical term. God intends for wives to “complete” their husbands and husbands “complete” their wives. Every married couple knows this instinctually. In a healthy marriage one always realizes the debt one owes to the “gut level” influence of his/her spouse.

Marriage is also the bond of trust that protects the basic family that God declared, “very good.”

Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and told them, “Multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.”

Our most sacred cause is to raise children who continue to fulfill God’s destiny of caring for the world until Jesus brings in the “new heaven and the new earth.” This is God’s first command.

The most intricate relationship combined with the most sacred trust given to us by God? Now we know why divorce is so devastating. Divorce is declaring God wrong on his most basic plan.

Jesus acknowledges the devastation of ripping apart the very fabric of God’s original building block of life. Divorce? He says, “No.” And he gives means to stay together.

The very foundation of the Christian life, giving yourself for the sake of the other, is what it takes to stay together. Following Jesus, you become the kind of person who wouldn’t think of splitting what God joins. Faithfulness is the DNA of being a disciple and a spouse.