Yesterday was a strange National Day Calendar Celebration that kind of fits in with the devotional from Friday, February 7th. Yesterday was National Cut The Cord Day. What cord are we cutting, you ask? This is a day to encourage people to cut the cable television cord.
For any who has had cable or satellite television through the years, you know that it can get pricey as monthly bills creep upwards. Typically, you are bound to a company for a two-year contract period. When you get fed up with the increasing prices, they come up with a mysterious offer that will keep you tethered to them for another two years. Before you know it, you’ve had a provider for several years.
There is the physical aspect of the television cable. This isn’t much different than all the years of having an outside antenna. A cable comes from the antenna through a hole drilled in your siding or foundation and runs through the walls or floor to the spot where you want your television. If you decide that you want to change the placement of the room’s furniture, you are usually locked to one location for the television or you have to move the wiring. This is a frustrating aspect of having a cable coming into your home!
Last year, we cut the cable with the freeing joy of a Millennial and the technological thinking of a Gen Z-er. After an unproductive phone conversation with our satellite provider due to increased cost and nothing more for it other than reoccurring outages, I happily said, “Pull it!”
We dropped Frontier for our internet and landline, another great moment of cutting the cord, and went with 5G wireless. Might I say that we have never surfed as fast and glitch-free as we’ve done over the last year? Between Roku and 5G wireless, we feel like we’ve been ushered into the modern era of technology. We are cable free, contract free, and when I speed test the system, I red line every time like a driver in a souped up muscle car with the accelerator mashed to the floorboard!
I know that some of you are thinking, “That’s great but where are you going with this? What possible spiritual application can you make from this?” Glad you asked!
In the days of Creation, God provided someone for Adam in a miraculous way. Genesis 2:21-24 says, “And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; (22) And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. (23) And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. (24) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Here’s something that struck me as I was reading another passage. Genesis 3:20 says, “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.” This makes Adam the father of all living. Terms were used that Adam and Eve had never experienced: father and mother. They didn’t have a father and mother to leave but they were prophesying what their own children must do some day and what all would have to do when they got married.
Cut the cord.
Leaving and cleaving can be tough for some, especially if they are leaving a tight-knit family. It can be even tougher if they are leaving a controlling, possessive family. Perhaps we confuse the issue when we talk about someone marrying into a family. Biblically, aren’t we marrying out of a family?
When God told us to leave and cleave, it didn’t mean that we break all ties. It simply meant that our primary focus and investment is in creating a new home with our new spouse. You now have to do what’s right and best for a new home, even if it meets with the disapproval of your parental homes. God must be the head of your new home, guiding 
it through life and establishing that home as a testimony of His relationship to His church.
Have you cut the cord? Ephesians 5:30-32 reminds us of the beauty and purpose of the Christian marriage. “For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. (31) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. (32) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”
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