I just picked up my Bible to do my reading a few moments ago and, pretty quickly I realized something I had never realized before today.<\/p>\n
Before I get to it, though, I hope this doesn’t make the rest of you you roll your eyes and say “Duh, Amy!!” Let’s stay in a community of love and support here.\u00a0 And please remember that I am very clear in sharing that I am NOT a Biblical scholar. I just like to read the Bible. A lot.<\/p>\n
Okay. Here goes:<\/p>\n
If you are a reader of the Bible, I would bet you have noticed that adultery is all over it. It\u00a0 is discussed in so many ways with so many warnings. But, until this morning, I just glossed over all of those. Adultery is not a weakness with me. I have never had any temptation in my marriage and don’t see that I ever will. So as I read each passage I just prayed for others whom I know that have experienced it in some form or fashion and moved on.<\/p>\n
This morning, though it finally occurred to me that God is talking about adultery to Him, to our Lord and Savior. <\/strong><\/p>\n This is just another way He is telling us to keep our relationship with Him pure. When we lean on something other than Him, and build a relationship with something or someone that takes us away from Him, we are committing adultery. When I put Him off by saying I’ll get to my reading or studying or praying later, I am casting Him aside in favor of another.<\/p>\n Would I do that to my husband? When I committed to be with him to talk, listen or go on a date, would I tell him he needed to wait longer because I needed to check email and read other things on the internet for 45 minutes, re-organize the pantry, or meet up with friends? Or would I honor my commitment to him first and fit those other things in later?<\/p>\n Yes, things come up, and schedules need to be rearranged, but God needs to stay number one. And when things keep slipping I need to take a good hard look at why they are slipping. As they slip, am I genuinely talking to God about it and listening? Or am I allowing the enemy to gain a foothold and push me out of a good habit and a beautiful relationship?<\/p>\n All these warnings about adultery are warnings of Satan slipping in to our lives and coming between us and our Father.<\/p>\n Like I said, many of you might have already caught that one. But I’ve missed it every single time.<\/p>\n Except today. My eyes are opened even more. My heart is listening even more and I can’t wait to continue reading to see what else he has to say and what warnings he has for adultery in the rest of the book. I want to guard my relationship with Him.<\/p>\n Thanks, God, for this revelation today. I love you, I need you, and I don’t ever want to cheat on you, not even for a minute. And now I can work even harder at protecting myself from that type of adultery. Please, Lord, guide me in growing stronger for you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just picked up my Bible to do my reading a few moments ago and, pretty quickly I realized something I had never realized before today. Before I get to it, though, I hope this doesn’t make the rest of you you roll your eyes and say “Duh, Amy!!” Let’s stay in a community of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-in-90-days-spring-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}