The Husband's Affections Should Be on His Wife (TMF:520)

Friday, October 21, 2016
Peace to Live By: The Husband's Affections Should Be on His Wife (TMF:520) - Daniel Litton
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       For married men, sometimes your thoughts and eyes are on another woman, or other women, and they are not on your wife. But your affections should be on your wife alone. If you're looking at other women wrongfully and thinking lustful thoughts about them, you are taking your affections off of your wife. The more and more you do this, you may decide you don't like the way your wife looks anymore. You may become discontent with your wife. And, thinking about other women—committing adultery with them in your mind—could led to improper actions from yourself. You may try to make reality the things you've been thinking about in your mind. You may go after another woman and actually commit the adultery that you were thinking about. Having these preliminary, inappropriate thoughts can lead to sinning against God, yourself, and others. Whether or not your thoughts have led you to physically commit the act, the thoughts in and of themselves will hinder your marriage. All the time you spend not thinking about your wife and thinking about other women is leading you further and further away from your wife. You affections should be toward her. But in order to have affections for your wife, you have to think the right things about her.