Immoral Thoughts Can Become Idolatrous (TMF:536)

Monday, November 14, 2016
Peace to Live By: Immoral Thoughts Can Become Idolatrous (TMF:536) - Daniel Litton
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       Really, when a woman thinks about another man—thinking immoral thoughts—that can become idolatry in a person’s life. A woman may not see her incorrect thoughts in her imagination as wrongful because they are not real life situations. But these thoughts can and do cause problems, and they become idolatrous. For the single woman, the thoughts can lead to obsessions. This is never good. Anything that takes first place in our minds is an idol. For the married woman, she may not see her husband’s traits as desirable because she is thinking of the other man’s traits. The woman may see all her husband’s attributes as no longer attributes. For married women, if they are thinking about another man, or men, in wrong ways, and not devoting their thoughts only to their husbands, it will undoubtedly affect their marriages. The woman will start to long for the affections of the man she is thinking about, and not the affections of her husband. She may even wish her husband would go away, or divorce her, or be gone forever. The thoughts can get carried away. And a woman can be so attached to another man in her mind that she may end up wanting to divorce her husband for the other man.