When we have a divorce, regardless of the cause of the divorce, we have a sweeping victory of Satan.
The devil says:
The devil says:
- You see Nazarene, you crowned them, but I won them, I separated them!
This must be firmly in the mind of every person before they get married , that they should never separate!
When 2 people get married in Christ and then divorce, it's like putting the devil in the middle.
The Gospel says that the only cause of separation is adultery.
Christ does not command them to explicitly separate the husband and wife, but allows them to divorce, so that no other greater sin will be committed later, e.g. murder of the husband/wife.
Blessed is the spouse who, for the love of our Christ, endures this cross and does not ask to be divorced.
But those who do not forgive their spouse for something they have done and ask for separation, tomorrow they will go to the confessor, how will they ask God to forgive them their sins?
Elder Ephraim of the Skete of St. Andrew
