TODAY WE ARE looking at one of the things that could tamper with a married man or woman’s sexual purity in marriage. We are looking at Emotional Adultery.

What is Emotional Adultery? Simply put, it’s a subtle form of infidelity that creates emotional bond or oneness between a married man or woman and another person of the opposite sex, who is not their spouse; wherein they have an affectionate attachment to each other and a veiled romantic relationship with one another.

The “other person” may be a colleague at work, a fellow member of a service unit in their local church, an old school mate of the opposite sex that was long lost but now found; a former suitor or lover, etc.

In this relationship, there are no physical or bodily contacts between the pair, as yet, but they are nonetheless bonded in this questionable, unwholesome and secret affinity. They cherish to be alone together. They may send text messages to each other; and in some cases, share very intimate chats that express sexual admiration. They may even exchange “affectionate” personal pictures or videos of each other. And for these reasons, they don’t allow their husband or wife to come any where near their phones.

The question is: is this kind of relationship right in the sight of God?

The answer is simple: IT ISN’T RIGHT AND CERTAINLY CAN NEVER BE!

Why? Because it’s a blatant betrayal of the faithful Spouse whose Mate is unfortunately involved. It’s a breach of the sacred and solemn marriage covenant between them; which has the God of Heaven as Witness.

Marriage is a momentous Vow that makes husband and wife ONE FLESH.

Therefore, God requires all their giving and receiving of affection, passion and sexual satisfaction to be strictly within the confines of their union; and from each other ONLY.

Dear Reader, perhaps, you’re trapped in Emotional Adultery right now. May be the person you’re involved with is

a man or woman who helped you at a critical point of need. Or it may be your boss at the work place, who trusts you so much; yet you know within your heart that the closeness, even though well intended, is already strongly pulling both of you towards embracing each other! It could even be that your Spouse is aware of your undue closeness with this man or woman whom you’re entangled with and has complained about it but you’ve always accused him or her of being jealous or too suspicious.

Well, they have not been jealous or too suspicious. Rather, it’s you who’s been deaf and blind to the warning signals that God has been giving you!

In the sight of God, Emotional Adultery is same as full-blown Adultery. No difference. Our anchor scriptures uttered by Jesus Christ Himself

are cited below to confirm it:

“YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID BY THEM OF OLD TIME, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY:

BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER LOOKETH ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER HATH COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH HER ALREADY IN HIS HEART” (Matthew 5: 27-28)

So, Adultery could be fully committed and concluded without any physical touch. And that’s what those involved in Emotional Intimacy are doing.

So what should you do to extricate yourself from this snare if you’re already trapped in it? Here are the steps you should take and urgently too:

(A) Confess your involvement with this person to God as SIN; because that’s exactly what it is. Then GENUINELY REPENT OF THIS EVIL and ask God to forgive you.

(B) If you’ve given the person any “sensitive things”, PRAYERFULLY, TACTFULLY and WISELY retrieve them. Such “sensitive things” include nude or semi nude selfies, photos or videos of yourself which you might have sent thoughtlessly to their phone upon request. This is done mostly by women. You need to retrieve all such or else they could be used by this person or some others who gain access to their phone to blackmail and disgrace you sometime in the future.

(C) Withdraw from that ungodly relationship IMMEDIATELY.

🍷🍗 TAKE-HOME LESSON: EMOTIONAL ADULTERY IS EQUIVALENT TO PHYSICAL ADULTERY. IT DEFILES YOU AND MAKES YOU A CANDIDATE FOR ETERNITY IN THE LAKE OF FIRE, IF YOU DON’T GENUINELY REPENT OF IT.

💕❤️ TONIGHT’S ONE FLESH ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM

Reread today’s devotional piece and discuss it soberly.

🍏🍎 MARRIAGE REVOLUTION CONTINUES!🍎🍏

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