“Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds!”
-Galatians 6:7-8a, MSG
Cheater seems happy and prosperous while I struggle to make ends meet. It is not fair!
I think many of us, faithful spouses, have had this experience. We may have even said these very words.
It feels unfair, because it is.
That is life. But I take comfort from the unyielding spiritual law about sowing. The cheater will eventually reap a harvest of “weeds.”
The Cheater cannot outrun himself or herself. Wherever she goes, she brings her awful character with her. The poor, destructive decision-maker is still running the cheater’s life. Eventually, that will show.
Besides, I cannot imagine living like that. We walked away with our integrity. They did not.
“But, DM, that does not bother him,” you say. So?
Do you want to be the sort of person that such behavior does not bother you?
I don’t.
The person who can betray their closest human relationship and live as if that it meant nothing is a person who is incredibly broken and twisted. They are doubly broken if it does not bother them.
I have heard from theologians, that those who do not reap any of the pain they sew in this life, but haven’t a care in the world for the damage and destruction they cause, and have Worldly happiness and success, are being kept aside by God to be made examples of His perfect Justice on Judgement Day.
We should never envy them nor feel resentful of their seemingly great lives once they’ve tried to ruin ours! They’re either putting on a false front (they are very false people after all!) or they’re headed for a fate truly worse than death- the Second Death!
No, we have the right to just anger, but we should pity and pray for them as well!
Amen.