A dear friend just discovered that his wife of almost a decade has been unfaithful for the past two years. She's been committing adultery with his friend and minister from his local church. Can words even begin to describe, to capture the pain and sorrow?!
It's in times like these that distance makes the heart ache. I can't believe she did this to him, to me, to all of us who have loved them over these years. Sin can't be isolated or quarantined, it's a damn nuclear fallout and everyone gets hurt. He's hurt, she's hurt, the kids are hurting, the friends, church, etc.
I've known these two since college and I am devestated. I can't believe how much I hurt, yet I know this pales in comparision to his hurt. Yet, perhaps no one person's hurt compares with the hurt God feels on seeing his daughter act so selfishly. I am reminded of Psalm 51:4, "Against You, You only, I have sinned and done what is evil in Your sight..." She's been trying to serve two masters for two years, but really she's only been able to serve her one master, her flesh. She's been re-enslaved to her flesh's desires to heal her hurts and desires and dreams on her own power.
May You help her to stop running, stop trying to save face, stop lying and start repenting of her horrible sins. She needs Your grace to confess that You are right in Your judgments and that she is in desperate need of a savior. Help her to see Your Son Jesus as the one who will forgive the contrite harlot, the unfaithful Israel, the whore Gomer, etc.
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
By Your favor do good to (Jeanna); build the walls of their (family). Then You will delight in (her) righteous sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offering; then (her best) will be offered on Your altar "
- Psalm 52:17-19 (NASB)
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