A4P Guest: I’m married and have a one-year old little baby girl. I am a born again Christian. Before I got married, I was in love with my husband and did everything to convince my friends and families that he was the one and I should marry him. I even said to them, God showed me many signs and even spoke to me to marry him (I guess that was a lie). But now, after living with him for three years, I know that I cannot live with him anymore and I need to leave him.

A4P: Hmm. Did God speak to you to do that?

A4P Guest: LOL! No, no! I won’t play that game with my life again.

A4P: Good decision. Then why are you leaving your husband and destroy your family?

A4P Guest: I guess everything my mom said to me came true one by one and I cannot live with all the guilt and regrets I feel almost every day.

A4P: Okay. I am lost here. What are you talking about? What is your guilt about? Was your husband hiding something from you and now you found about it?

A4P Guest: No. He didn’t hide anything from me.

A4P: I’m ready to listen whenever you’re ready to tell me details.

A4P Guest: He is a Muslim guy.

A4P: And?

A4P Guest: That is why I want to leave him.

A4P: Is that your only reason for you to break your covenant and leave the father of your little one?

A4P Guest: Yes! And I don’t know why you said, “Is that your only reason?” I mean, what more reason do I need that is worse than that?

A4P: That would have been a correct biblical thinking if you were thinking like that before you tied the knot and built your nest before God and man. My dear, now it is too late! You are a married woman.

A4P Guest: No, it is not too late! God forgives my mistakes. I know, I should have listened to my mom and many people but I refused. And now I know that what I decided to do was sinful and I already asked God to forgive me.

A4P: Hold on a second! So what is your reason to leave your Muslim husband?

A4P Guest: I am a Christian and He is Muslim. The Bible said, “Do not be yoked with unbelievers.”

A4P: If that verse has to be ever be applied in the context of marriage, it can only be true and applied to single people not married people. You are a married woman who wishes and desires to be a single woman but the truth is you are a married woman. And the Bible verse you need to look at in your situation is not 2 Corinthians 6:14 but 1 Corinthians 7:12-6.

“if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 ESV

Do you see it? This is your passage to read, study and obey. Don’t try to correct or make a past sin right by another sin. Divorcing your husband without a Biblical ground will be another grievous sin the consequence of it may hurt you and the next generation.

Instead pray for your husband. Rescue the next generation (especially single people) as you guide and advise them to trust God and read, study and obey God’s Words! ///