She is Another Man's Wife

 

Genesis 20:1-10

 Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, 2 and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.

3 But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”

4 Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation? 5 Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and didn’t she also say, ‘He is my brother’? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.”

6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her. 7 Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.”

When we read the above scripture our mind is often drawn to vs 7 that God was angry with Abimelek because he took Sarah the wife of a prophet Abraham. No!

Take a look at vs 3. God was angry with Abimelek because he took another man’s wife and not because he took a prophets wife. What is the consequence? Death to Abimelek and all that's his (vs 7)!

Now, in the present day, it is possible you may know someone who is involved in this abomination and is not physically dead. What the scripture is referring to here is spiritual death, separation from God. You and all that belongs to you becomes what the bible refers to as Ichabod (1 Samuel 4:19). The glory of God will depart from you. You will just exist, but not living, as well as all that is yours. You and all that is yours will be without the hedge of God open to the bite of the serpent (Ecclesiastes 10:8). Imagine living without the hedge of God; your business without the hedge of God, your children without the hedge of God, and everything that you own without the hedge of God. Disaster waiting to happen! Imagine what Job in the bible went through when the hedge of God was removed from him (Job 1-16).

It is not uncommon to see the Business Empire built over the years collapse unexpectedly. It is not uncommon to see children of first class graduates amount to nothing in life. Where there is no glory there is no success story.

Are you crushing on another man’s wife, or are you already involved in intimacy with another man’s wife? Repent and seek forgiveness. Is another man’s wife seducing you? Run far away !

Shalom!

Read also Proverbs 5:3-23