Infidelity is rampant in this country and unfortunately, all too common in the church as well. People claim to “fall in love” when they didn’t “mean to,” saying that it “just happened.” I point out that people fall in toilets, off of bikes, in holes, off of chairs, etc… but they don’t “fall” in love. Men and women who get involved in extramarital affairs think that it’s love; they feel this huge rush of emotion, passion, and desire and think, “Surely, this has to be love.”
But to answer the question posed by Tina Turner, “What’s love got to do with it?”
My answer: nothing!
Let’s look and see if an affair actually fits into the description of what love is:
Putting another person’s marriage, family, life, and their very well-being in jeopardy just for your own satisfaction and selfish needs is not love.
Don’t deceive yourself: an affair is never about love.
Self-serving lust? YES!
Love? NOPE.
My answer: nothing!
Let’s look and see if an affair actually fits into the description of what love is:
- Love endures long… NOPE - most affairs are short lived, when the heat gets too much or the feelings wear off, it’s over.
- Love is patient… NOPE - an affair is all about impatience.
- Love is kind… NOPE - what is kind about stringing someone on, not being devoted to them, and two-timing them?
- Love is never envious or jealous… NOPE - an affair is filled with lots of envy and jealousy.
- Love is not proud… NOPE - an affair is nothing but a pit of pride that both people are swimming in.
- Love does not rejoice over evil but rejoices over truth… NOPE - adultery is sin, sin is evil. It’s built on layers and layers of lies and deceit, not truth.
- Love does not seek its own way… NOPE - an affair is extremely selfish.
Putting another person’s marriage, family, life, and their very well-being in jeopardy just for your own satisfaction and selfish needs is not love.
Don’t deceive yourself: an affair is never about love.
Self-serving lust? YES!
Love? NOPE.
by Mark Gungor
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