The Mark – No. 11 About Adultery
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 07:41AM The commands of Jesus are the Mark, the target for the perfect life. To aim for and to hit the Mark is to conform to the image and likeness of God. To ignore, neglect, or miss the Mark is to sin. The commands provide stepping stones through earthly life, upon which the child of God survives tempests and deflects the boomeranging darts of pride. Adhering to the Mark aspiring immortals gain victory.
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery.
Matthew 5:28
Focused aspiring immortals hand in hand
Stroll carefully and confidently on the straight and narrow path
Loving God with every breath and with pure hearts
Not concerned that
Invisibly He watches from on high, to judge them by their mating love.
For Adam and Eve, it wasn’t the curiosity about the forbidden fruit, or even heeding the serpent’s skeptical words that expelled them from His Garden, but actually eating it. The temptation to sin is not the crime, only the doing of it.
Adultery is the exception because the lust is the sin, even without the act. Lust is disloyalty. Lust supplants the spouse in one’s heart, if not yet in the bed. In Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the punishment for adultery is death for both parties. God deplores a divided heart.
His love is loyal, abiding, unchanging; it is not fickle or double minded. To be like God, one must first and foremost love like God.
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