And this you do as well: You cover the LORD's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he not longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor at your hand. You ask, "Why does he not?" Because the LORD was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did not one God make her? Both flesh and spirit are his. And what does the one God desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth. For I hate divorce, says the LORD, the God of Israel, and covering one's garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless.

You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, "How have we wearied him?" By saying, "All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them." Or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"

Malachi 2:13-17

The most dangerous illusions we can have are spiritual and moral ones that people are so prone to believe. They believe it is okay to have an affair because their husband or wife does not fulfill them or understand them. People actually try to justify that things like abortion, extramarital sex, and divorce for other than biblical reasons. They believe they are morally right. Some Christians even believe in such illusions.

It is essential that we allow the Bible to be the standard by which we distinguish reality from illusion!

One of life's greatest illusions

is that sin has no consequences.

Our Daily Bread - January 18, 2004