The relationship between God and His people is often likened to a marriage. This analogy continues in the New Testament where the church is referred to as the bride of Christ.
The negative of this is that worshipping of idols is the equivalent of adultery. Judah needed to realise the awfulness of what she had done. She thought she could go and worship an idol or two and then return to the Lord when she felt like it. But this is like a woman thinking she could go and live as a prostitute and then simply return to her husband as though nothing had happened. We all know that that is a ridiculous notion, so it is when we betray faith in God. We need to appreciate how precious our faith is.
Just as Judah thought God should simply accept her back, so many people have the same attitude to God today. They think that He has a duty to accept us back. This is not so. It is only in humility and repentance that we can come back to God.
This likening of our relationship with God to a marriage is one of the reasons why sexual morality is so important, and why it is an area that is so severely under attack. God's morals of marriage being between one man and one woman, and sex being for the marriage relationship alone is extremely important and societies abandon these principles at their peril.
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