hardness of your hearts

My Sunday Scripture 2009.10.4.


The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked, "Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?" They were testing him. He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?" They replied, "Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her." But Jesus told them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate."


In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this. He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."


And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it." Then he embraced them and blessed them, placing his hands on them.

SaintMark 10:2-16

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My Reading Notes:
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"Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment......"

Divorce is the worse thing in the 21st century. It is the downturn of the human nature. If there is no law to allow people to divorce, then people will handle their marriage more carefully. And this is a topic discussed by too many and nothing positive have come up so far. However, if we could aware to the hardness of our hearts, we might choose a better option for our marriage.