We are often so focused on our own family and relationship problems, that we only see them in our own personal terms and hurts. But God sees marriage rejection and splits as part of a bigger picture. This picture is very big, and involves His relationship with humankind.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
This is a profound mystery–but I am talking about Christ and the church.
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Eph 5:31-33 NIV
When your prodigal rejects your true Love and forgiveness, you are in good company. Your individual rejection is a puzzle piece of pain in a greater picture of God’s love and redemption. This picture is the fallen world itself where humankind rejects Christ’s unconditional love.
He understands your pain, because the pain of rejection is a core pain that Christ experienced in His life on the earth and experiences now as people reject his free grace. He is on your side, and because of this he will help you and be your true love forever.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. – Isa 53:3-4 NIV
