My family member who has the unfaithful spouse said to me;
”God knew what He was doing when He gave the out for divorce, the out being unfaithfulness.
Because the agony of a spouse being unfaithful is so bad and holds so many different levels of pain and confusion and such conflicting emotions, He had to have known the pain.
Jesus was made man, was put on this earth, to feel the joy and pain, as humans, to die for the sins of us all, to die for the act of unfaithfulness in spouses.
He [Jesus] had to have known what the pain of unfaithfulness was like, to allow it to be the only out of a marriage”
*I paraphrase from her original statement
This also made me think how highly God deems marriage and sanctity in the marriage.
The importance it plays in the lives of His [married] followers.
American Heritage Dictionary – Cite This Source
un·faith·ful ![]() ![]() adj.
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Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus – Cite This Source | |
Main Entry: | faithlessness |
Part of Speech: | noun |
Definition: | disloyalty |
Synonyms: | agnosticism, betrayal, disbelief, dishonesty, doubt, falseness, fickleness, fraud, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, skepticism, treacherousness, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness |
In the bible, hebrew ~ unfaithfulness, is found only in Old Test. and pertains to unfaithfulness to God.
*fornication, harlotry
*Noun: unfaithful or treacherous act, trespass
- against man
- against God
*Verb: to act unfaithfully, act treacherously, transgress, commit a trespass
- (Qal) to act unfaithfully or treacherously
- against man
- against God
- against devoted thing
- against husband
And I keep getting unfruitfulness coming up along side of unfaithfulness.
To apply to our lives today;
Have you been unfaithful to your spouse?
In word or deed?
Do you act treacherously [deceptive, untrustworthy, or unreliable] toward your loved one?
The pain caused by maritial unfaithfulness runs deep and spreads like a ripple in the ocean.
Yeah, Jesus experienced the pain of our unfaithfulness on the cross. He knows it.