THE OTHER NIGHT I WAS WATCHING an old crime show, black and white.

Selah.

This year of 2024 is over fifty years later of the showing of that program… However, Satan’s reign since The Fall of Man brings nothing new under the sun in regard to present day evil:

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.  Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.

Don’t think so? The Bible never fails.

As I watched the particular program, I found myself thinking: “This is the first one I don’t like.” Why? I didn’t like the ending.

Selah.

When people get arrested for a crime there is still time for many of them to repent, turn to God, or get back on the narrow road if they’ve strayed. After all, there is only one unforgiveable sin: blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and God offers forgiveness and mercy beyond our understanding in the time He has given us to repent…

Murder is forgivable. Theft is forgivable. Lying. Homosexuality. Stealing. All forgivable upon God’s mercy and our contrition. We must have Jesus Christ as our only Lord and Savior (saved by grace, through faith) and we must be sincere.

Selah.

So, why didn’t I like the ending? It had to do with marriage: a man who had a loving wife and two young sons. He had been writing to another woman for some time. He left his wife without warning, without discussion; without giving her any opportunity to help him make the changes he wanted in his lifestyle with her.

He left in a manner, appearing to have been drowned or dead somehow. She was frantic.

When he came to his senses (seemingly; the program did not relate much of this at all) he wrote to his wife (this time, not the other woman) and his wife took him back. I would not have. She took him back; she took their sons, and all three joined him and began (again?) living ‘happily ever after.’  This program was a true story: and it never showed at all the man’s sorrowing over his sin.

That did it for me. I have always believed that when a spouse cheats on you, you wonder: “How can I ever trust him again?!” I would. Some can / some can’t. Neither is wrong. I wouldn’t / I couldn’t…

I wouldn’t be wrong to call it quits on that cheater.

I WANT YOU TO KNOW: divorce is not always wrong and it is never a sin. God Almighty allowed Moses to give a certificate of divorce to God’s children! Study it out…

Selah.

For me, my marriage is solid (since September 1979.) I’ve always said I would never stay married to a man who cheats on me. And: I don’t have to in God’s eyes.

Beloved, it is up to you to let the marriage remain or not; neither is wrong. But to me, how could I ever know he’s not cheating again? Marriage is such a sacred covenant. I don’t deserve to be cheated on: and neither for you.

It is a joyous thing to know God doesn’t endorse sin. Divorce is not sin: cheating is.

Do what God counsels you on and don’t second-guess His Word – ever!

Selah.