by Angie Lewis

Created on: December 02, 2010

Have You Cheated on Your Spouse? How to Stay Faithful to Your Marriage

Love the Person God Created You To Be for Your Marriage

Value the person you are. Stop disrespecting yourself! That’s what you are doing every time you allow a weakness to takeover the flesh. It’s easy to do when most of us have been brought up to believe it’s ok to have sex with whomever we please whenever we feel like it, even if we’re married. Essentially unfaithfulness to our spouse stems from not putting our TRUST and FAITH in God.

God made a big “to do” about coming to earth as the man Jesus and showing us how to live pure, upright lives for Him with our marriage. I don’t think we should take this love that God has for us too lightly. Most of us love ourselves in the wrong way, probably because we have not grasped God’s amazing love for us. There is a big difference from loving ourselves egotistically and loving ourselves as a child of God. Not until we stop loving ourselves in the wrong ways and start loving the person God created us to be for Him, can we love our spouse in the right ways.

Don’t Be Fooled by False Flattery and Praise

In this world of ego-based love there is much false praise and flattery going around. Don’t be fooled into thinking this flattery and recognition comes from real love—love from the Father. Don’t misunderstand me, there are people who truly mean what they say and do not expect anything in return for being kind, but there are also many people who claim Christ and will say anything and be anything, for a time, just so they can get something from you. In this article we are talking about how to stay faithful so in that respect I’m talking about false flattery from people just so they can have sex from you, or whatever it is they want from you.

It is believing in this false praise that tempts people into being unfaithful in their marriage. Were love to be sincere, there would be no adultery and using of each other. Love must be sincere and without dissimulation. (Romans 12:9). The minute we base our relationships on self-based, ego built love we fall into societies traps, which separates us from God—His Spirit that lives within us. Going to church is not going to help us with our temptations because churches do not teach about how relationships should be according to God!

Think about how unfaithfulness begins: it begins with each other sweet talking and giving flattery to making

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