Re:Verse passage – Exodus 20:14 (day four)
“You shall not commit adultery.”
When we marry our spouse, we each make a covenant or an oath that our spouse and God are the only ones that our hearts will belong to. Marriage can be a beautiful reminder of who we are in Christ. When we become Christ-followers, we make an oath that our hearts will belong to no other (see commandments 1 & 2). But we don’t always act like that is the case.
As followers of Christ, we are His bride. How often do we, as God’s people, long for other things or long for that which is not God – essentially committing adultery in our hearts? I can say for myself that it is all too often. Yet, God keeps His promise. God keeps his oath that we are His people – forevermore. That’s why He sent Jesus; so that we could be purified from sin and presented as the gleaming bride. Jesus gave His life up for his bride…for us!
Have you rejoiced in God’s grace today because our hearts belong to Him forever?
Jimmy Gunn
Associate Pastor, Preschool & Elementary
Yes Jimmy..commitment to our Lord, our Daddy, and commitment to our spouse when we ask God to bless that total relationship is so much more than just one aspect of the marriage relationship.
These commandments indeed need to be reminders of God’s basic commands to us His followers, HIs children.