Beware the Greener Grass

 

I’m Duane Matz and welcome to Today’s Living Word.

 

Heb 13:4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."

 

It’s not by accident that the admonition to be content with what you have and the reminder that Jesus will never leave or forsake you follows the verse concerning undefiled marriage!

 

First of all, many marriages end up in divorce court because one of the spouses is not content with the other. Someone comes along and the spouse starts thinking, “oh my life would be so much better if I pursued this new relationship” and off they go seeking the supposed greener grass on the other side.

 

Blinded by covetousness and lust they disregard God’s command not to covet their neighbors wife! Ex 20:17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

 

Covetousness for the sake of another lover, breaks out into the sin of adultery and the marriage bed is defiled, and what God has joined together, man has torn apart.  Countless people have fallen for this trap of the devil and many lives (yes especially the children). suffer the ensuing damage.

 

If this describes your current situation, repent! Confess your played out act of covetousness as sin, receive God’s forgiveness, deal with the ensuing consequences of your actions and  be on guard so that the sin is not repeated.

 

And if you are beginning to have thoughts of “greener grass,” make those thoughts captive to Christ and flee to His arms, remembering His model of faithfulness to His bride. Seek to be like Jesus He will never leave His bride, and you and I should never leave or forsake our mate.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word