Moment of Meditation: You Shall Not Commit Adultery (Matthew 5:27-28)

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent
has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
(Matthew 5:27-28)

"You Shall Not Commit Adultery"

Unlike popular thinking, adultery isn't just the physical act of marriage betrayal. Adultery begins in the heart. Unholy desires for another person. This is adultery. Lustfully looking at that man or woman. Wishing you could be "lucky enough" to sleep with them. Wondering what they would look like with less on. This is adultery.

It happens every day. Every where. Television shows are full of it. And all of it is considered normal. Normal human behavior. Humans are sexual beings, but sex was given to be expressed and enjoyed inside the marriage bond. God compares His relationship with His people to a marriage. As Hebrews tells us, "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous" (13:4). Israel went into exile for their adultery. What do you think will happen if you don't repent of yours? Amen.