Do you like discipline? I don’t. I hate it. I hate being disciplined. And I hate disciplining my children. It is so unpleasant. But it is necessary.

The entire chapter 5 of Proverbs is dedicated to the matter of adultery! See if you do not see this all around you:

“Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, (Proverbs 5:8-11 ESV)”

I see hurting people everywhere because of this matter of adultery – something we take so lightly! (Desperate Housewives?). I see women in poverty, children broken, subjection to further abuse, lonely senior adults with no family to visit (because it’s so broken)…

King Solomon who wrote this proverb knew a thing or two about this, for he himself was a product of adultery (His mother was Bathsheba!). And he himself had 1000 wives and concubines! What is the remedy?

“You will say, ‘How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction! I would not obey my teachers or listen to my instructors. I have come to the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.” Prov 5:12-14

God loves you and I love you. Do not commit adultery. The water is not sweeter on the other well. Rather, it’s poisonous. It will kill you. That includes those of you who are single. Having sex with someone who is not your wife (in your case, it’s everyone) is committing adultery.

Rather, “Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.” Prov. 5:15

Ask God for the heart of discipline to stay away from the thing that will kill you…

Love,

PH