Oh it sure seems to be much greener. It has every appearance of complete and utter satisfaction. The more you look at it, the more you think about it, the more lush that field grows. It is the field of sexual immorality. The field of crossing the line before marriage or outside of marriage. It is enticing. It is pleasing to the mind and body. It promises to fill you. It charms you. It wines and dines you. And once you give in, it destroys you!
Adultery, fornication, pornography, and all sexual perversion are malicious facades. The outer shell gives the appearance of excitement, fulfillment, and understanding. The outer shell pretends to know you and offers itself for your needs. The outer shell promises to secretly satisfy. The outer shell, however, is very thin.
Once you enter into a forbidden relationship, the consequences follow you the rest of your life! What promised to fulfill, excite, and satisfy now haunts and destroys. Trust is broken. Covenant is transgressed. Sacred lines are crossed. People are abused. Marriages are corrupted and severed. Sex is perverted. Emotions are twisted. Sometimes lives are even taken. The grass on the other side of sexual fidelity is not greener. It just looks that way. It’s just painted by a fallen world, a selfish flesh, and a sworn enemy!
Proverbs 7:21-23 “With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life!”
Keeping oneself pure is the greenest, most satisfying, joyful field!
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