After Exodus 20:14 and Matthew 5:27-28
A message telegraphed
in five words, miscroscoped
like so many messages
into summary simplicity,
meaning more than
its words say. That word,
adultery, means what it
says, its formal definition
of being unfaithful to the one
selected for you, the one
you loved, the one who loved
you, the one provided to you
to come alongside to be one,
one flesh, the oneness pointing
to the kingdom.
And it means more, a synonym
for faithfulness in life, faithful
in all things, to all people,
faithful to your spouse,
your children, your family,
your parents, your friends,
your church, your work,
your society, your culture,
your God. An impossible
standard, only brought
to reality by the One.
Photograph by Clay Banks via Unsplash. Used with permission.
Some Friday Readings
Four Years After Our Hardest Day – Tim Challies.
The School of Faith – When God’s Ways Are a Mystery – Sarah Walton at Set Apart.
The Flight from God, & a Flight into the Country – Michael De Sapio at The Imaginative Conservative.
Psalm 23 – Megan Willome.
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