CHEATERS ARE DEFYING GOD

“Do everything they say to you,” the Lord replied, “for they are rejecting me, not you. They don’t want me to be their king any longer.”

-I Samuel 8:7, NLT

For whatever reason, recognizing the larger picture is helpful. Cheaters are not “just” rejecting their spouse. They are rejecting God.

They may say otherwise. In fact, they may continue practicing in religious settings. However, the truth is they are rejecting God.

God was party to the covenant that they rejected by being unfaithful (see Malachi 2:14-15).

Cheaters are primary offenders of their relationship with God. They are violating God’s clear prohibition throughout the Bible against committing adultery (e.g. Exodus 20:14, Matthew 5:27, James 2:11, etc).

I find this strangely comforting.

A cheater has a problem with God. And that cheater is not going to get the better of the Creator of the Universe. Only a fool believes otherwise.

I do not have to be smart enough or eloquent enough or whatever to make this point with my cheater. God’s got this!

They can delude themselves that it is merely a matter of rejecting the faithful spouse over this or that “excuse.” God isn’t fooled.

And the sooner cheaters wise up to this spiritual truth, the better for their own souls.

 

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*A version of this post ran previously.

6 thoughts on “CHEATERS ARE DEFYING GOD”

  1. Greetings DM.

    Your blog is so comforting for those that have been soul raped and beaten up by the Church, but I must admit that I’m in a kind of a dissonant situation, I was my whole Christian life taught that adultery break the marriage covenant, abandonment and in my very particular vision violence do too, but in recent years I’ve been hearing a lot of voices ( in the Christian Community) that said, that no matter what happens in a covenant, it might be breached but that doesn’t let anyone free from it, that in the eyes of God, man CAN NOT separate what he has joined, is not a matter of not doing it, but a matter of being imposible to do so, that if God wants someone free from a marriage then He would decide the death of the Spouse, like He did with Abigail, there is no other way, and that he allowed divorce, but never remarriage, and no matter if the other person have marry 20 times after the first marriage, God still sees that person married to the first spouse, because you have the obligation to wait for the other person to repent, that God is going to give you the gift of celibacy, and since God forgave and waited for us, that the same attitude is expected from us, that no matter how hard, or what have happened your are bound till death by that covenant, and sometimes it makes so much sense, because we are to be Holy as he is Holy, and to suffer for the kingdom and so much and so on, but on the other hand I think that it would be so unfair, I’m pretty much confused and really makes think about the character of God, he is merciful, but merciful can mean wait until the other person repents (no matter how long or how hard that might be), and merciful can also be ( you are free from a person that only damages you and betrays you) it’s really confusing for me to understand, I guess it’s a matter of wisdom.

    I hope you can give some clarity in theses issues.

    Your sister in the Lord,
    Pamela D.

  2. In addition to Pamela’s question, I have this. If adultery breaks and destroys the marriage covenant, what happens to couples who don’t divorce, forgiveness is shown, and then go on to reconcile? Does the marriage covenant just magically become whole again after it was destroyed? It’s all so confusing Thank you.

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