In Total Shock

So I am on my evening commute home and listening to Al Sharpton on MSNBC.  I'm at a red light and a commercial comes on that I quickly write off as a spoof.  Then it came on again and I quickly realized that it was a serious advertisement for a serious company.  The commercial featured an African-American man asking Santa Claus for a special gift...a mistress!  He says, "it's been a while Santa, I need a mistress for Christmas."  I was floored.

Ashley Madison is a company that promises that any married person can get hooked up with someone and have an affair.  They promise discretion and they promise that you can find someone with no problem.  I don't even know where to begin.  I was so shocked, I drove all the way home with my mouth open in disbelief.  Their slogan is "Life is short...have an affair."  Wow.  I mean there are no other words but...wow.

Let's see, biblically, marriage is the first institution, coming before the church was even established.  Marriage is the analogy that God uses to describe His relationship to His people.  Marriage is the analogy that Christ uses to illustrate His relationship to the church.  I mean, marriage is SACRED.  It's actually the one thing left in the world that actually means something to people.  Yet, this company has chosen to dismiss all of these things and set up a business that is in the business of breaking up marriages.  They tout the fact that you can find someone to meet your needs, someone that will listen to you, someone that matches up with you.  My advice to you if you are married and your needs are not being met...it's time for you and your spouse to have a meeting and lay EVERYTHING on the table.  Before going out seeking fulfillment outside of the marriage bed, find out what the problem is and why the fire has gone out.  Bringing that other man or woman into your situation is Satan's trap for you and won't benefit anyone.  It will only cause sorrow for the wife, husband and children if there are any.  Something else to consider, you might be the reason that the fire has gone out...it might not have anything to do with your spouse.  The best way to keep a marriage healthy is to constantly be working on yourself and making sure that you are constantly walking in love.  We have to always be evaluating ourselves and making adjustments so that we are the best possible person that we can be.

The bible says this in Hebrews 13:4, "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous..."  Marriage is to be held in HONOR among ALL- married and unmarried.  The marriage bed is to be undefiled.  There is no room for a third person to fit into any marriage.  The final statement is enough to cause this website and any like it to shut down- God's judgment will be upon the sexually immoral and the adulterous.  That's very plain and simple.  Jesus even went so far as to say that even lusting after a person, without even committing the act, is just as bad as committing the act of adultery. 

Quite simply, this website is leading people into sinful relationships and causing married folks to have sinful desires.  That temptation is serious and this is just beyond bad.  How can anyone be so wicked as to lure a married person to sin.  But this shouldn't be a shock because the prince of the air, Satan, is in firm control of the media, the airwaves, the music industry, etc. 

Ok, so if you're reading this and you've considered visiting Ashley Madison or you've already been there, my prayer is this: That God would deliver you from the lustful desires of your heart.  Their slogan says a lot about what they think of their patrons.  "Life is short...have an affair."  The more appropriate thing to say is this, life is short...have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?  Life is short...are you encouraging one another as we see the day approaching (Hebrews 10:25)?  Life is short...Jesus is coming back like a thief in the night (1 Thess 5:2)...will you be ready?  Life is short...are you living a life that glorifies God (Ephesians 4:1, Colossians 1:10)?  They are absolutely right, life is short but that's no reason to have an affair.  It is, however, a very good reason to have a RELATIONSHIP with Jesus.