Denny answers:
If a parent remarries, the person a parent marries becomes a step-parent.
When a wife or a husband dies or gets divorced, the other parent sometimes gets remarried. The new parent is called a stepmother or stepfather. Sometimes the new parent has kids of his own, so those kids become the stepsisters and stepbrothers of the other kids in the family. This can be a hard change, but God wants us to love and accept the people in our families, including new stepparents and stepbrothers and stepsisters.
When families change because of divorce, this makes God sad. His perfect plan is for a husband and wife to always stay married and never get divorced. When people get married, they promise to be married for their entire lives and to work out their problems. However, none of us is perfect, and so sometimes divorce happens. If it happens, don't blame one parent or the other or think that it's your fault . The truth is that God still has an important plan for you and your entire family. If you are His children by trusting in His Son (Jesus, who died on the cross for sin), you can trust Him to take care of you all, even when things get hard.
Bible Truth
- "But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve . . . . But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15).
- "Where can I go to get away from your Spirit? Where can I run from you? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the grave, you are there. If I rise with the sun in the east and settle in the west beyond the sea, even there you would guide me. With your right hand you would hold me" (Psalm 139:7-10, NCV).
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