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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Can alienated, divorced hearts be reconciled? “Turning hearts” of course takes more than human wisdom, more than any “marriage counselor” can do. It’s interesting that the Lord sends “Elijah” to do it (Mal. 4:5, 6). Why does He not say “I will come and do it”? No, “Elijah” is the Lord’s special servant to do just that!

 

There are many programs and seminars offering “marriage enrichment” for couples in desperate need. Books are everywhere. Some divorced couples find their way back to love again; thank God.

 

But many are distraught because they do reverence the Bible as the word of God, and it clearly says that God “hates divorce” (Mal. 2:14-16); the weight on their hearts because of breaking up and living apart is enormous. (Proverbs says it’s better to live on the roof than with a brawling and contentious woman, 21:9; 25:24; the same—man!) The heart of the Lord Jesus yearns for those who just can’t “love” when it’s their duty to love. But He loves them. The Bible says that He also has had problems with His Bride-to-be (cf. the entire Book of Hosea; also Rev. 19:7, 8). Alienation is cosmic; the need for reconciliation is cosmic.

 

And the Bible just as clearly says, “It is not good for the man that he should be alone” (Gen. 2:18). (I don’t dare try to re-write the Bible but I often wonder, Isn’t it also “not good for the woman that she should be alone?” But I can’t say what God didn’t say.) When the mysterious providences of God bring two together in what they believe is “love,” their happiness is heavenly.

 

When Rev. 18:1-4 is fulfilled and the message of the great Day of Atonement “lightens the earth with glory” (the gospel of justification by faith in relation to the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary), will that truth bridge gaps and bring alienated spouses together? God says yes: He will “send Elijah ... before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he shall turn [hearts]” (Mal. 4:5, 6).

 

It will be a miracle as great as Jesus delivering the demon-possessed child in Mark 9:20-27. Jesus first told the boy’s father, “If you can believe, all things are possible.” Love is believing the “impossible.”

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