And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years. -Mark 5:25
The word oppression means to exercise hard control over. Oppression will exercise hard control. That's what happened to that woman with the issue of blood. She had the oppression of a constant bleeding condition for 12 years. It cost her all of her money. So she became impoverished. We don't know what else it may have cost her. It may have cost her her husband.
There are some folks who don't believe in ‘in sickness and in health, 'til death do you part.' Everything is fine as long as everything is going well. I know of a particular instance where a husband left his wife when she came sick because she was no longer able to function like a wife. He married one that was healthy. The Bible tells us that you shall reap what you sow. Someone who takes that approach could be the very one to become sick.
When you marry someone, before God, you make an oath that He holds you to. It says that you will be the partner to that person come what may for the rest of your life. It would be better not to stand before God and man and say it because you can lie to men, but lying to God is another matter. Men may not have the power to enforce upon you the penalty of your words, but God certainly does.
You can't just leave your spouse because they don't look like they used to or because their shape has changed.
In Malachi, they took their wives that they married when they were young and when they became prosperous, they left the wife and married someone younger.
There's nothing new under the sun. And God came to them and then they went to church, incidentally, and offered sacrifices before God and said, ‘Hallelujah. I love you Lord. I'm blessed. I have money, I have a young wife. Hallelujah.' And God said, ‘I'm not receiving your offering, and I'm not blessing anything you do.' He said, ‘From here on in everything you do is going to be cursed because of what you did.' And they said, ‘What did we do Lord?' And God said, ‘Because you put away the wife, or husband of your youth.'
Maybe the man does have a little middle age spread now. And maybe when he plays basketball, he quits after 10 minutes. And maybe there are some changes, but God is not going to put up with you just dumping them to go get a younger version because you want something that will excite you. That's just all in your head. If you get the right attitude, when you see him, he'll still excite you.
Stop looking at other people's relationships. The grass is always greener on the other side. Getting your eyes where they don't belong will cause you to want something that you can't have. There is a correlation between how you handle your marriage and the well-being of your body. Your healing may be delayed until you repent and get right with God.
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