Be Still . . .
Devotionals for Daily Living ©

"You shall not commit adultery.
(Exodus 20:14 (NIV))

This sounds simple enough, but when you stop to consider what adultery is, it becomes very complicated.

Adultery is sex with anyone that you are not married to. It also has other conditions that today's society says no longer apply.

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
(Genesis 2:24 (NIV))

This was also repeated in Matthew 19:5 and in Mark 10:7-8.

Jesus expanded what adultery means in the following verse.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
(Matthew 5:28 (NIV))

I want to shift gears for a moment.

I want you to think about the Temple in Jerusalem. It was revered. It was holy. It was the place that Solomon had built so that the Lord could dwell among His people. It was treated with respect. It was treated with awe because of whose house it was.

If you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit dwells within you in the same way that the Lord dwelled in the Temple in Jerusalem.

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
(1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV))

As believers, we are to treat our bodies as the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.

Think about that. Would you invite an important guest to live in your house and then commit actions that would disgrace you and the guest?

Our bodies are to be treated in this manner.

What are you committing?

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