Some biblical concepts are not easy to explain. For example, many people cannot understand what sin is and why they are sinners. It seems to them that they just want the best for themselves and therefore have the right to break some or even all of the rules and laws if they interfere with personal happiness.
To clarify the essence of sin, the prophets cite the example of family relationships in which love and happiness presuppose faithfulness.
We can understand sin as a person’s willful choice in favor of someone or something contrary to God’s will and relationship with Him. This is conveyed in one word – infidelity.
God loves and is jealous. His loving heart aches with our infidelity. But for Him it is even more painful to see how people’s unfaithfulness punishes them, destroys, deprives them of everything. God knows that without Him a person cannot be happy. He does not hold us back, but warns us that infidelity is destructive.
Sometimes it seems to us that infidelity is associated with choosing something better. A woman can meet a more beautiful, interesting, charming man – and leave her family for him. This is how infidelity is justified by the search for the best. But the truth is that this search leads to an endless change of partners, so that infidelity becomes a way of life, or rather a way of losing life. Ultimately, the unfaithful loses everything. He punishes himself. Infidelity is both a crime and a punishment.
The prophet Ezekiel tells a parable about two sisters who left their family for temporary entertainment with ever-changing partners.
Pleasing their lovers, they themselves destroyed themselves and their future – they sacrificed children to idols and desecrated shrines, killed their future and laughed at the dearest (Ezek. 23: 37-39).
Infidelity is always self-destructive and self-punishing:
“Therefore thus says the Lord God: since you have forgotten Me and turned away from Me, you must also endure for your iniquity and for your fornication” (Ezek. 23:35).
We see that lovers will not bring happiness. They will take advantage of beauty, but then they will “be agitated against”: they will strip and dishonor, they will bring to justice, sword and fire (22-29).
Each of us knows what infidelity is and how expensive it is. But some still lure themselves with false hopes that her path “somehow” will lead to such happiness, in which there will be fewer rules and more freedom.
The prophets warn: infidelity leads to dishonor and death, and only a return to God restores our dignity, gives happiness to be accepted and loved, teaches us to be faithful.
Author – Mihhail Cherenkov / cherenkoff.blogspot.com
Source: https://ieshua.org/chto-takoe-nevernost-i-k-chemu-ona-vedyot.htm
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