dar334

I opened my purse a few minutes ago to find a couple recent receipts I needed to log in my checking account register courtesy of an app on my Smarter Than I Am phone.  Stuck to the back of one of them was a 1.5″ x 2.0″ post-it note in which I had written “Current Wife”.  I instantly knew why I had written that note and the pondering began.

In the recent past, I have had a task involving new life insurance applications crossing my desk, where I was privy to the details requested.  On one of those applications, in the options to choose your beneficiary, was “Current Wife”.  My first reaction was laughter, but the more I think about it the sadder I get.  One thing thinking does to me is cause pondering, then cans are opened and worms are spewing.

In my pondering I was led to google “Scripture on Marriage in the Bible” and one of the first things that popped up was from a wedding planning website to help in the planning of that special day.  As I’m sitting here typing this blog, it dawns on me that the choice of “Current Wife” and “Special Day” certainly do not go together when you keep in mind the intentions of our Creator.  The first verse that this website shared was from Genesis 1:27-28:

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.  And God blessed them.  And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'”

Not much farther into the book we have Genesis 2:24:

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh”

When I got down farther in the article I found one of my favorites from Mark 10:9:

“Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Now before this starts a new branch on my pondering tree, I need to stick with the topic at hand.  I grew up in a family that obviously took that last verse to heart and stayed obedient to His word and the words they agreed to on their wedding day.  That is a blessing I remember quite often these days, and I hope it’s a blessing my husband and I have passed on to our children, and hopefully they will pass it on to theirs.  I’m not sure when it all started going bad, but the older I get the more generations I see, and the more generations I see the worse each gets.  The choice “Current Wife” would never even have been thought of in regards to a beneficiary in the generation my parents grew up in, nor the generation of my siblings, or even mine ( #imnotinthesamegenrationasmysiblings), yet we seem to be taking it in stride now days.  And THAT my friends, is WRONG.  Granted, there are some that still hold fast to the words they spoke, the commands of God, but we are becoming fewer and fewer.  It’s ironic that the attendance in our churches is also becoming fewer and fewer.  And we wonder why there are so many horrific storms, mass shootings, and incurable diseases these days.  In my opinion, it’s like the plagues in the Old Testament.  And to quote a dear friend of mine that no longer walks this earth; “Opinions are like ass holes, everyone has one”.  RIP my dear Jerry, I will never forget you.

I, for one, do not believe that as this world changes, so does God’s commands.  Until the New New Testament is written, I’m sticking with the Instruction Book I have and hoping I will one day be strolling through heaven with my parents.

Always pondering something,

dar