DJ writes, "If we are engaged to the Lamb, then sin is worse than we thought. Sin is adultery." (315)
Personally, the sin of adultery looks a lot to me like murder. What I mean is that committing adultery involves taking the life of another by using them in order to gain our own reward. They become a means to our objective and end. As a professional Christian I have fallen victim to this again and again for as Anthony de Mello has said (I paraphrase) "Religious leaders are unusually bent toward cruelty for they have become accustomed to sacrificing people for a cause." Instead of seeing all people at all times as "THE PRIZE" for which I am called to be a bond servant, I too often seek to be served.
So, now that you've heard a brief attempt at understanding my personal struggle with adultery, I want to simply quote from scripture God's specific rebuke against the detestable practices of adulterous Israel Ezekiel 16.
He chides Israel for adultery and specifically details some of the adulterous sins of Sodom to make His point. What were the wicked practices that He describes?
"She (Sodom) and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty." (Ezekiel 16:49)
So, What does the sin of Sodom and adultery look like? Being arrogant, unconcerned, not helping the poor, not helping the needy, feeling haughty.
Lord God, please soften my heart such that I am less concerned with feeding my hunger for food and credit and I am more concerned with generously serving my neighbor in this city.
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