Philip Yancy tells the story of a guy who told him over dinner,
"I'm going to leave my wife and children for another woman. Will God forgive me?"
He answered,
"He will, but you may not want Him to"
In the moment that one of earth's relationships is selfishly broken - the more so with earth's deepest relationship of marriage - the initiator is, consciously or unconsciously, destroying their relationship with God. "Inasmuch as you have done it to one of these, the least of my family, you have done it to me"
That's what the wise Philip Yancey saw and, as the story is reported, his prophecy was proved sadly right.
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