And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce….
-Jeremiah 3:8a, KJV
What I find curious in cases with adultery is how the Christian community is so quick to press against the faithful spouse choosing divorce as if this was a rash decision.
The elephant in the room is how adultery really was a failure of impulse control on the part of the cheater. This sort of impulsiveness essentially gets a pass, though. Just don’t divorce!
I honestly do not know a single faithful spouse who approaches divorce rashly or impulsively. They usually agonize over this decision.
On the other hand, Cheaters are far more rash about abandoning their marriages and families. They are the ones needing the caution that hardly ever comes from the Christian community.
After all, a cheater has a track record of poor, rash decisions by virtue of their cheating ways. They are NOT playing the godly, long game.
Cheaters are the ones who have foolishly thrown away a secure family for the passing pleasure of sin. These are the people with the greatest need for sound decision-making exhortation as they have demonstrated the opposite most recently.
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*A version of this post ran previously.
