The article in Ladies Home Journal caught my eye and I had to read it.
It’s called “He Started an Affair on Facebook”.
Carl got in touch with his “first love”, whom he had not seen in 25 years.
He had dated her from his freshman year of high school until she broke up with him in her freshman year of college.
After meeting with her for coffee, with his wife’s knowledge, he suddenly realizes he is not in a happy marriage and would be happier with the 25-year ex-girlfriend.
The article has the viewpoints of both and a counselor and while there is reconciliation by the end, there is no mention of God in the marriage.
I’m on Facebook too.
I have some old girlfriends as Fb friends!
And that’s as far as it goes and I can tell you why!
GOD IS IN MY MARRIAGE!
In the LHJ article, both the man and the old girlfriend knew what they were doing was wrong but just couldn’t stop themselves.
That’s the power of sin but I have a God that is more powerful than any sin!
Jesus is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. Eph 3:20
Sin can be fun and enjoyable, which is why we do it.
The Bible speaks of the passing pleasures of sin. Heb 11:25
It is written to flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 1 Cor 6:18
With such stories as the one in LHJ, I understand why that pastor wanted every married couple in his church to give their spouse access to their FB account or to end the account altogether.
There should be no secrets between husband and wife, after all, the two shall become one flesh; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate. Mark 10:8-9