God's call to his people is a call to depart from their spiritual adultery. He commands that we have only one God. There is none equal to him in this world. Yet we fail to fear, love and trust him. Even though most of us don't make the step of offering our children to idols, making sacrifices, and hanging out with the prostitutes in the pagan worship sites, we still fail to look to God with our whole hearts. We fail to be solely devoted to him. We are like those who are invited to the wedding feast in Matthew's Gospel and who make some half-wit refusal to the king. What are we to do?
The fact is, whatever we do we will end up committing spiritual adultery. We are despicable in this. But see in Matthew 10 that the Lord of the wedding feast does fill his hall with guests. None is worthy of attendance, but both bad and good are gathered into the hall for the wedding feast. That includes us bad people. Through Jesus' death on our behalf, through his giving himself as a substitute for us who were unworthy and who treated him with despite, we are gathered into the wedding hall. Let us then rejoice in the feast our Lord has placed before us. That's our duty, and it is our great delight as well.
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