Lent
is traditionally a season of contemplating the Ten Commandments, or words of
life. How many of them can you call to mind? Here’s the seventh:
You
shall not commit adultery.
Exodus
20:14
What’s
the big deal about sex between consenting adults, regardless of existing
commitments? It’s only sex. No-one needs to find out. No-one needs to get hurt.
Except
that adultery is never only about sex, is always found out (if not confronted)
and someone — in all likelihood, everyone involved — has already been hurt, and
will only be hurt even more.
That
said, the point is not primarily about what you do with your genitals, so much
as what what you do with your genitals — the life-producing organs — says about
the life you are continuing to produce. Are you faithful? And, as this is in
fact a marriage-treaty between a god and a people, is this god faithful? Yes,
indeed — to a thousand generations!
Are
you faithful — in all your relationships?
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