Let No Man Put Asunder

I find it interesting that after God placed Adam in the garden of Eden, he immediately knew that our first father was in over his head and needed help.  It was never God's intention that his children go through life alone.  In the beginning as recorded in Genesis, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Genesis 1:27).  We were sent to this earth in families, to form families.  "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis 2:24).  Of that union, sealed by God himself, Jesus admonished, "what therefore, God hath joined together, let no man put asunder" (Matthew 19:6).  God's power and authority binds not just on earth but also in heaven (see Matthew 16:19).  He doesn't intend for the union of a couple to be "until death do you part," but "for time and for all eternity."  I attended a ceremony this week where those precious words were uttered for a dear friend.  She now has the promise of spending eternity with her husband.  What a glorious future.  What a divine promise.