Finality


Jer 3:1  They say, If a man sends away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will 

		he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot 

		with many lovers; yet would you come back to Me, says Jehovah. 


	For those that commit such acts there is either lack of understanding or complete 

corruption of heart. I believe that for the most part people who have accepted Christ as their 

Savior don't have a complete understanding of the magnitude of their commitment and the 

finality that should occur with their loyalty and devotion to God. 


	In a marriage where infidelity occurs it is quite often partially because of a lack of 

understanding. With adequate pre-marriage counseling comes a knowledge of the mate and 

the gravity of commitment to them. Upon this knowledge can be built a faithfulness which 

may last through the whole of life. Even when ignorance is prevalent, however, there should 

be a capturing of the heart when one falls in love that prohibits diversion of attentions to 

another. If the heart is truly taken there is a passion formed in it that is a force of resistance 

to any other option that may present itself. There is something really odd in a marriage, 

though, when there is not only infidelity, but when the unfaithful one returns to the spouse 

expecting continued relations, even though they have been so very unfaithful. Somehow 

there is this great lack of understanding and shallow commitment of heart that make 

possible this willful defiling of oneself with no apparent guilt or remorse. 

	So often in our relationship with God it is possible to be drawn away to other worldly 

passions. Quite often there is a tendency to develop an intimacy with these things and yet 

come back to God as if no unfaithfulness occurred. While infidelity may be obviously wrong 

when pointed out both in a marriage and in our relationship with God, it is very possible for 

anyone to fall into it when knowledge is forgotten and the heart loses its passion through 

lack of fellowship. Prevention of unfaithfulness to God is only possible through developed 

maintenance of understanding through meditating on His attributes and by continually 

offering to Him a heart of worship in passionate fellowship. May the mind be consumed 

with knowledge of His Word and may the heart be taken in such a way that no person and 

no diversion could ever draw it away from its commitment of time and relations with the 

Lord. May there never be a comfort found in returning to God as if nothing occurred after 

intentional unfaithfulness. 

	In a marriage when restraint from physical relations brings a breakdown of 

emotional and natural nearness, so a restraint from intimacy with the Father will facilitate 

the environment and the attitude conducive to looking elsewhere for gratification. There is a 

need for daily intimacy and openness. There is a need to allow oneself to be completely 

exposed and vulnerable before the Father. This is not just a position of authority where we 

are demanding things that are our right in the presence of the One who has loved us for no 

apparent reason (although there may be a place for this), but this is the position of 

submission and devotion with total giving in to the dictates of His will. In this will be found 

a relationship of knowledge and commitment of heart from which there can be no turning 

away. 


2/20/04