Day Ten--Who Are You Aligned With?

"For the lips of an adulteress drip honey and smoother than oil is her speech; But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood..." (Proverbs 5:3)(NAS)

"The lips of a seductive woman are oh so sweet,her words are oh so smooth. But it won't be long before she's gravel in your mouth..." (Proverbs 5:3-4)(The Message)

Adultery is the giving of your affection,devotion, and allegiance to someone or something other than the person one is in covenant with. The effects and the damage of adultery is devastating. The devastation effects all parties involved as well as the innocent. Husband and wives develop a distrust for one another, always suspicious of motives and intentions. For the spouse who has been hurt by the affair (notice I did not use the word victim) it effects their esteem in themselves wondering how they failed the relationship and the object of their love. For the spouse who is caught up in the affair, it gives him or her a false sense of security and soon to discover that the "grass is not always greener." The sad reality is that involved in most adulteress affairs are children who did not sign up for it. They are wounded and hurt and left confused and wondering what is "real" and what is love. In my own experience as well as counseling others, children of adulteress affairs live with the scars long after the affair and the divorce. That many of the children are not able to truly trust their spouse because of the baggage that was gained and cultivated in their formative years. They never fully invest for fear of being devestated and they prepetuate often the same cycles,thus creating a self-fulfilling prophecy about marriage and life.

My friends, we know that marital adultery is wrong. Many would never even think about being unfaithful to our spouses, but what about spiritual adultery? Remember that adultery is the giving of our allegiance, devotion, and dedication to someone other than our spouse. Think about it, isn't that the definition of sin as well, anything that takes our devotion, allegiance, affection and the like away from God. The Father must be the center of our universe and when we fail to honor Him as the center we err and we sin. What and whom are we giving our time and energy to that prevents us from being all that God would have us to be? In other words, who are you aligned with?

For many, it is our careers, it is our social calendar, it is our own self importance that cause us to be unfaithful to the Father. Everything is more important in my world than the things of God. For some, it is material things that they place countless hours chasing and creating.

The bottom line is, if God is not first in your life, you are practicing spiritual adultery. God must be the center of our lives, Jesus shared, "seek first the kingdom of God..."

Living with Faith and Power and Creating a Phenomenal Life!

Bishop Keith Russell Lee
Hoffman Estates, IL and Los Angeles, CA

Spiritual Focus: Being True to God, ourselves and to our spouses.

Spiritual Prayer Treatment

Father, we align myself with you mind, body and spirit.
Our lives are yours and we vow that we will keep you at the
center of our lives. We vow that we will be faithful in our
relationship with you.
Lord, we vow to be faithful in our marriages,and relationships.
We vow that we will honor you and that you would be manifested
in our homes.
In the Name of Jesus and Through His Power!
Amen! And So It Is!