While I was flipping the channels I came across some of the most disturbing shows featured on daytime tv and it wasn't necessarily the show itself that disturbed me. In fact, it was the opposite. What disturbs me is that we have people in our society that provide such horrible instances that can be put on tv. One show was an whole hour dedicated to catching cheating spouses in the act and it wasn't the show "Cheaters" either it was another show. The fact that we have two or more shows dedicated to this topic is so sad! I know that infidelity is something a lot of people partake in, especially in our society, but I didn't think it was that common. In fact, on Montel Williams show today there were representatives from a website that helps cheating spouses plan their affairs in such ways in which they won't get caught. After like 10 minutes of that show I had to turn it, I was getting to upset that there were people in our society making a living on destroying families. Enabling cheating spouses to continue in their sin with hopes of keeping it hidden...no one gets hurt right? WRONG! The bible even talks about how your sin will come to the light eventually. And what the Lord says will come to pass! I am so sad to hear that there is such a destruction against families today and it is so upsetting that we simply continue to encourage these behaviors then wonder why spouses are killing each other, harming their children and even going as far as having a number of abortions to continue to cover their infidelity! Or even more common today, not even get married...people aren't even bothering getting married anymore! We fail to remember that the WAGES of SIN is DEATH! Whether that is death to a person (it may not always get that far), death to a family, to persons reputation, the lives of children involved on both sides of an affair and not to mention the spiritual death that happens.
We wonder why so many husbands and wives are taking part in this act of unfaithfulness when we allow shows in our homes like DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, and GREY'S ANATOMY where infidelity is celebrated! I have sat and watched a person I know who just recently ended a premarital affair laugh her socks off and be so into the tv screen as she watched these shows that talk, joke and make light of the very things she herself was involved in not so long ago! I am not angry at her or even at the shows per say but I am completely infuriated with the fact that we as BELIEVERS IN CHRIST need to be praying more and more for our husbands, wives, and those closest to us, in fact we need to be praying for marriage and the sanctity it use to have!
As I prepare to become wife very soon, I know that I need to be praying for my fiance! Men today are being bombarded with image after image that even make me blush when I see them. For example there is a billboard that is on PCH by seal beach and it is so appalling, I question what it is advertising...beer? or sex? My poor Anthony can't even drive around without being attacked! And as a wife we need to be aware of what is being brought in or projected into our homes...Proverbs 31:27, "She (the virtuous woman) carefully watches all that goes on in her household..." (Emphasis mine) The Lord also tells us in Matthew 19:6 "Since they are no longer two but one, LET no one separate them, for God has joined them together." We mustn't allow things to come in between our marriages! What are we watching on TV? Listening on the radio to? Looking at in magazines? Spending time on the computer doing?
God takes the uniting of a man and woman very seriously and so should we! And if He has taken the union seriously we must remember that HE WILL chasten who He loves! In Proverbs 6:32 the Lord tells us,"But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys his own soul." And again as believers we are admonished in Ephesians 5:3-13:
"3 Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God's people. 4 Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God. 5 You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is really an idolater who worships the things of this world. 6 Don't be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the terrible anger of God comes upon all those who disobey him. 7 Don't participate in the things these people do. 8 For though your hearts were once full of darkness, now you are full of light from the Lord, and your behavior should show it! 9 For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. 10 Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, rebuke and expose them. 12 It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret. 13 But when the light shines on them, it becomes clear how evil these things are."
So I will continue to pray for those marriages that the Lord has brought in to my own life to bless me, as well as the sanctity of marriage that is definitely under attack in our world and I encourage you to do the same.
In Christ,
Angelia
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