Christianity can be challenging work, at times without a lot of reward. This is because many people will not accept good doctrine - - they would rather follow their own yearning without respect to guidance. For example, the Bible says a Christian man should be a “husband of one wife”. This does not allow for a “wife and a girlfriend, or girlfriends” since the Bible also says, “you shall not commit adultery”. For some men, and for some situations, it can be a challenge to remain faithful.
But some will turn their ears away from the truth and toward fables. People will want to hear any other thing than the word of God.
There may be two kinds that turn away:
--Those that never were taught what God has to say, that grew up under parents or conditions that were apart from God.
--Those that have heard and know what the word of God says but choose to walk another way. Perhaps because God's word prohibits something or does not provide for immediate gratification.
When tempted it is good to read scriptures like the ones below to see that this is expected and that the good Christian must continue the right way anyway.
- - Eph-5:28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- - Eph-5:31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
- - Eph-5:33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
- - 1Ti-3:2 Therefore an overseer [any boss, position of leadership] must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- - 1Ti-3:12 Let deacons [supervisors] each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.
- - Tit-1:6 [A man should be respected] if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.
