Monday, February 12, 2007
An 'Off' Night 2
I felt a bit 'off' while teaching at our Sunday evening service. I found it hard to feel passionate about the commandment to not commit adultery even though I considered it comical that this part of the series landed on Valentine's Week. Feeling 'off' reminded me of a post a had made sometime back, so I searched for that post. Low and behold, the last time I felt 'off' was February 19th, 2006. Is it a coincidence that I have felt 'off' the past two years on Sunday's surrounding Valentines Day?
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I personally see that commandment as ecompassing a lot more than just the act of sex we call adultry. Elsewhere in the OT we see the phrase "marital unfaithfulness". To me that includes several things. I don't think looking at porn makes you a very faithful spouse, although I'm not sure I would include it as a Biblical reason for divorce. Especially since Jesus follows up this teaching in the NT with the "sins of the heart" issue. You know, lust is adultry in the mind, anger is murder of the heart.
I don't know, I just think that many people think as long as they don't actively have an affair they are okay. But in my mind there is a lot more you can do to not be faithful to a spouse that is still not adultry.
Sorry, didn't mean to take over on your preaching job.
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Take it or leave it....well you prolly should just leave it, but PERHAPS you are experiencing what some might refer to as the "Valentine's Day Blues," no? Maybe there's a deep undercurrent of sadness at the prospect of being single for yet another valentines day??
You are single, aren't you???? If you're not then I guess you can chalk this post up to a sleep-deprived mommy! (Blame it on the kids.....)
I agree with you Dena, and we did talk about more than just literal adultery. My series is really on the 10 Commandments from a New Covenant Perspective and so Jesus' discussion of mental adultery was certainly central to the discussion.
Dr. Mommy Rader, I think you should do a weekly blog column under that name. If you get asked questions you can answer them via your blog. And if you don't get asked any juicy questions you can just make them up. I am single and though I don't feel the blues it's hard to argue with the data of feeling 'off' twice in a row at this time of year.
That being said, February 12th or 13th is perhaps the dumbest time of the year to start a relationship and so my offness shall continue!
Leave it to me to be all pragmatic and un-spirtual.....but when was the last time you saw the sun? I always get down about this time and nothing really helps until I can run barefoot in grass again. It's the middle of Feb, and winter sucks, it's been around forever and there is no real end in sight yet.
It is hard being winter outside like lindy said. I find that during the winter time that i have a hard time accomplishing the simplest of tasks. For example i spent saturday night rebuilding bike hubs. Usually this takes 10 minutes per hub an i do four (two per bike). So this forty min. task ended up taking me two hours for no reason that i can see other than my own lack of urgancy.
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thanks sarah
yeah, i think the outside thing is very true. I am not an outdoorsmen, but i do like to be outside at least a lil bit every day. and it's been so cold. lil cabin fever going on. in fact, i just took the garbage to the road and i'm stinkin freezin
As someone who is happily married and has been for several years let me say don't let VD (yea, I know) get you down. It's really no big deal, just a random date. I'll spend VD this year with a bunch of smelly jr high boys. My vote is for SAD.
When I was at the Hillsong church the speaker was talking about the sin of adultery. He said something like this: Some of you are so proud that you have kept this commandment. After looking around this room I can see that a lot of you probably just haven't had the opportunity. (pause for laughter) Just because you can't commit this sin doesn't make you Spiritual.
AJ, i read your comment on my email so i didn't know what post you were responding to and i thought it was the adultry one...so the VD abbreviation really did confuse me, haha
Kirk, that's pretty funny. I think i have decided there was a 3-fold reason for my offness. 1) i probably am a lil down about being single 2) it is a cold depressing month weather-wise 3) the hearers of the bible study are people who have been married for 30+ years in most cases and it didn't seem super relevant.
Would you believe me if I told you I seriously considered that??? And now, what is there left to do, but do it?? I LOVE the idea....my fingers are itching to answer juicy questions....
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