Love marriage

Love the church, love strangers and love prisoners. That’s what we are reading as this book comes to a close and now …

”Marriage should be honoured by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.“ Hebrews 13:4

God loves you loving one another. God loves you loving strangers. God loves you loving prisoners. God loves you loving marriages.

We don’t know why this is in the list. Was there some problem taking place within the church or was it because of the church living within a sexualised society? What is clear is that the adulterer and the sexually immoral threaten the honour and purity of marriage.

We all know the tragic consequences of where love has broken down. You may know the pain yourself. You may have contributed to someone else’s pain in your past. What good is it to strive for Philadelphia (family) love within the church if one’s own physical family is devoid of love?

When 2 people commit to a life friendship of love is there anything more beautiful? And yet when either or both don’t honour that commitment is there anything more tragic?

Self-less, sacrificial, this pure love is unconditional. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” If you have found such love then don’t let go of it. If you had such love then be thankful for it. If you have an opportunity to give this love then do it.

Sexual immorality is not that. Sexual immorality is selfish and does not sacrifice. It grabs and takes and goes for what it can receive from that other person not what it can give. It has an agenda which is to gain for its own pleasure. It will pay for it or manipulate or deceive the other or themselves to ultimately get what it wants. It will appear as activity but it commences in the heart. It is not love. It is not God and He will judge the sin of the heart.