Who was, is or will be your “Matchmaker?”11-24-25

This is the beginning of a series of challenges to motivate the readers to understand how important it is to live the way God desires for His children to live. The next few days will be challenges to get the readers’ brains to think; but to go beyond thinking about the natural circumstances and see what the Word of God says about God putting people together, rather than seeking on your own or letting someone else try to match you with someone.

There are all types of resources on the internet like “Christian Mating“ and so on, but God’s people should follow His directions. God gave Adam a wife (helper) – (Genesis 2:18).

Scriptures that say what God requires of us when it comes to His Word: Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be^[a] joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh (Genesis 2:24). 

Symbolism- Abraham (symbolic of God),  Isaac (symbolic of Jesus Christ), Rebekah (symbolic of the church, the body of Christ, Jesus’ bride)-(Genesis, chapter 24). True meaning of the marriage principle, a guide for the people of God throughout history. God sent His Spirit to get a bride for His Son Jesus Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink ^[a]into one Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:13).

Remember this, everything started with God, but the Triune God (Three in One) has always worked harmoniously. God said: Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26).

Back to God sending the Holy Spirit to get a bride for His Son; He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord (Proverbs 18:22).) What does this scripture mean? How does a man obtain favor from the Lord? Because He has allowed the Lord to lead him to the wife that God has chosen for him.

What happens if you didn’t do it God’s way? If you are in a marriage and did not know how your mate was to be chosen, the Bible tells us to do everything possible to make it work. But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. 

And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him.  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise, their children would be unclean, but now they are holy. 

But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace.  For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife? (1 Corinthians 7:12-16).

When Paul says, he said and not the Lord, from my understanding, after searching for what would make sense. Paul was saying that Jesus did not instruct him about this. Since we know that all scriptures are given by inspiration of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17), then it made sense for Paul to say what he did.

The only Biblical way for a Christian divorce (both are Christians): The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him,

“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”

And He answered and said to them, 

“Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘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 then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

They said to Him, 

“Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”

He said to them, 

“Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.  

And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for ^[b]sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”(Matthew 19:3-9).

These are God’s guidelines for a marriage- straight from His Word.

His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org