Taboo – Avoid Adultery is the third in our series on marriage. Consider these questions: Does God want you to be happy? Could you really lose your job if you cheat on your spouse?! Can’t women and men just be friends? We’ll tackle these and other questions as we continue our series on marriage.
Forbidden
The topic of adultery drips with forbidden thoughts. We’ll look at the damage done by this selfish act and how we can start to put broken pieces of a marriage back together again. Where to begin? With more than half of the marriages in our country ending in divorce, I think it’s important to talk about how dangerous adultery truly is. The author compared adultery to inviting your family and friends to a picnic on the interstate. At some point a truck hits everyone. He offers this story: In 1941 a Russian woman was in Nazi concentration camp. She survived! She was married and was sadly cheated on. The holocaust survivor said, “The affair was the most painful experience of my life.”
Healing
We’ve already bee hit by the truck. If you were hit by that truck on Sunday, you’re not going to be up and walking around by Friday. This will take time. Think two years. The formula for healing a marriage is this: Healing=Time x Work x Work. The time you know. What about the work? This looks like a heaping helping of humility for the offender. You’ll give up your phone, answer questions again and again. Sex will be… hard to come by during this time of rebuilding trust. So what about the second “work”? That’s the innocent party. There is an argument to be made that in a marriage there is no innocent party. Both sides offend and sin daily. It will be work to trust. You’ve had your heart broken once. Are you willing to let it happen again?
Want to hear more? Watch this week’s message taken from our series, Taboo – Avoid Adultery.
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