Don't Throw in the Towel on Marriage, Part 2 (TMF:538)

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Peace to Live By: Don't Throw in the Towel on Marriage, Part 2 (TMF:538) - Daniel Litton
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       Our thoughts are always at risk. That’s why we have to kept them pure. And women shouldn’t throw in the towel on their marriage, but rather should try their hardest to make it work out. A woman also has to remember that her thoughts about another man she doesn’t know very well may not be completely true, and probably are not. For a married woman, when admiring another man, who is not her husband, she will only see the good things about that person. She most likely will fail to see the bad things. But when a woman stops thinking about another man, she can again focus on her husband. Paul has told us in Romans chapter 7 the following: “For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress” (Romans 7:2, 3, ESV). It is only when a wife’s husband dies, that she should be thinking about another man. God takes marriage seriously, and wants pure devotion on the parts of both participants.