You know what I mean, the people who suddenly decide that they're going to break their vows and run off with someone else to play house. Leaving their real family in their selfish wake.
The only way I can reconcile this behavior in my own mind is to assume that they have lost their minds because I'm sure of two things: one of us must have taken crazy pills and it wasn't me.
I'd just found the lost key to my mythic life
So I bravely shook free of my kids and wife
I had seminars booked as a second career
Until a still, small voice screamed loud and clear
- Lament for Desmond R.G. Underwood Frederick IV by Steve Taylor
Of course, if they're Christians they would know its sin. Sin that involves breaking a promise made before God. Ananais and Saphira we're killed for lying to the Holy Spirit about some property they sold. I would think that would encourage a person to keep promises they make in front of God. They would also have, I imagine, considered what they were throwing away and I'm sure they would have thought about what effect would be produced on their children.
And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,
“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son." - Hebrews 12:5-6
Still it's disheartening and disturbing to see it happening. When I pray for these people, I of course pray that God will bring restoration and healing but I also pray that God will chastise them. Not to be vindictive but because He loves them and as evidenced by the verse above, God disciplines those He accepts as His children. He will never leave us and He is the God of the impossible. He can bring them back even from the brink of insanity.
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