Committing Spiritual Adultery

and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: ~ Numbers 15:39b King James Bible

If you put anything in the place of God, you are unfaithful to God. You’re serving an idol. When you follow other gods, that is unfaithfulness to God. It’s spiritual adultery.

Idols can be statues or demons, but the human intellect is also a deceptive idol, and many people worship the human intellect. They lean on their own understanding, but the Bible tells them not to do that. The Bible says the heart is deceitful and wicked.

The passage you just read from Numbers 15:39b is speaking of idolatry, which is spiritual adultery against God. It’s talking about your own ability to observe, sense, and reason–depending on that rather than being led by the Holy Spirit. Most people don’t realize how pitiful human reasoning is. You are unfaithful when you seek after your own heart, mind, and ability to observe. He rightly judges you as an unfaithful wife when you do that.

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