One Love

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
ONE LOVE
Prov 6:30-35
30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving. 31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house. 32 But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself. 33 Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away; 34 for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge. 35 He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.
NIV
Surely the comparison here defines a difference between a man who steals due to experiencing hunger for the lack of his own food, and the man who steals to satisfy lust even when he has his own wife. Yet I see still another picture of perhaps the character of God, and how he thinks. I am sure any sin is forgivable, because restitution has already been made by Christ. He has paid back sevenfold, it has cost his all his wealth, his very life to pay back and satisfy the justice of the Father. But what about this adultery issue? Can there be any restitution for not be faithful to God and going about having an affair, satisfying the lust of self with the world? I know God is a jealous God. Is not it spoken clearly enough in the second commandment? How could I expect the mercy of God if I leave the fulfillment I experience with him to seek out a fulfillment from the world? I know I have to live here; he created this place for me to live in and to have the necessary elements to sustain my life. But that is the physical realm, water, food and housing, not the artificial realm created by man. I need to live within the realm of God and what he has created for me, not within the realm of man and what he has created for himself. I need to worship my God, and not those ideas and concepts, those gods man has developed for his own benefit. I also cannot bring anything to God as a bride for restitution of my sin. I cannot offer him anything for the lust of bowing down to the gods of the world, the gods of men? The goals and ambitions of men created by men are devised for the satisfaction of self. The American dream is just that, a creation of man, for mankind to strive for, to lust after, and to spend a life of energy in pursuit of achieving self-fulfillment. This can only bring one end, self-destruction. If I allow myself to be lured by the world I will only wound myself, and bring disgrace to my own being. How could I live with myself? How could I live with such dishonor and shame? I need only one love, my God.