DEALING WITH DISHARMONY

 DEALING WITH DISHARMONY

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

May 1

 

“It hath been said,

Whosoever shall put away his wife,

let him give her a writing of divorcement:

But I say unto you,

That whosoever shalt put away his wife,

saving for the cause of fornication,

causeth her to commit adultery:

and whosoever shall marry her

 that is divorced

committeth adultery”

Matthew 5:31-32

 

We are told that in those days, divorces were granted

by the rabbinical law on the most trifling grounds.

Married people who were not getting on together

as well as they would have liked,

were prone to run away from that problem

by obtaining an easy dissolution.

Now we understand that no permanent happiness

can be obtained in this way.

As long as you are running away from your problem,

you will continue to meet it in a new guise

at every turn in the road.

Just as in running from one business position to another,

without first having brought about a change in consciousness,

we find ourselves but repeating the old conditions

in a slightly different form, so, as a rule,

people who divorce freely are apt

to finish up as dissatisfied as they began.

The general rule in Truth is,

fight out your problem where you are, with prayer.

The general rule is still good for all conditions in life:

Do not try to divorce or amputate the disharmony,

but let it dissolve away of itself under God's guidance.