Let No Man Separate

Numbers 32-33; Mark 10  

“’But at the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate.’”

Mark 10:6-9

If this is how God feels about divorce between a husband and wife, how much more does he care about the union of the bride of Christ with her Bridegroom. Christ’s prayer for the unity of the bride (John 17), relates to Paul’s analogy of the “radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless” (Ephesians 5:27). We are members of his body, like the “one flesh” reality of marriage; “what God has joined together, let no man separate” in the Church.

How can we focus on sanctification as God’s beauty treatment of the bride of Christ and ignore our unity within the global Church?

The early Church would be shocked at the way pride, schisms, renewal, and witness have so fractioned the Church of today. “What God has joined together”, in our marriage and in his Church,” let no man separate”.

“Lord Jesus, fill me with your love for the Bride, for your glory.”