To make matters even worse, she kissed his work enemy.

He just couldn’t believe what he just heard. But the crying and broken face of her fiancé revealed the seriousness of the confession. This ripped his heart into shreds. ‘How could she?’, ‘I thought what we had was extremely precious?’ He has been living a lie all this time—so he thought—and at that moment, reconsidering the relationship; it felt like she stabbed his back. He immediately ceased from all the hugging he welcomed his wife with. And then he left the room, not even muttering a word!

He thought of catching a glimmer of hope in going back to ask if the kiss didn’t mean anything to her but, alas, she wished she could say so. She was totally honest with him—she thought that to be the least she owes him—and she went on begging for forgiveness. Feelings of betrayal ripped through him and he couldn’t stop picturing her fiancé and his enemy together. The poignant thing is that she enjoyed the forbidden act and that was the deal-breaker. He, after that, went out to catch some air, leaving her behind in tears of regret.

After a while, he came back, not willing to ask her anything about the scene; calm as ever, he firmly said: “I am going at my friend’s house for some time, you know… to process this”. She couldn’t dare a look at his face because she couldn’t forgive herself betraying him. ‘What was I thinking?’ ‘How can I compare my fiancé to him?’… She went on in her regret but one thing was sure; she did the right thing: she had to confess.

This scene from a movie did really dramatize the biblical scenes ubiquitous especially in the prophetic division of the Bible. God makes a use of scenarios that we, humans, are able to identify with and understand to make a point. We are sexual beings for his glory so that we may know him more and we were created that way for us to know what it is like to belong to someone in a faithful covenant and what it means to break that covenant. He made us that way so we know what it feels like to be in love and to be in complete faithfulness to someone and what it is like to betray someone’s trust by infidelity. Knowing those feelings, it gives us an understanding of how it should feel like when we’ve betrayed our God, the ever-faithful lover, by loving our sin more. So many times Israel is said to be unfaithful and playing the whore by defiling herself with all idols whom she lusts after.

If you have never experienced betrayal in your life coming from your lover (I wish you never do), learn from these movie scenes—or at least think about this and feel God’s jealous heart and know him. Then you will understand what it is to betray the one you love dearly, ripping his heart to shreds, having the feeling that you’ve flung mud-clods in his face when you were allured by your own lust and thus regarded your love toward him as a thing of naught. You realize, to your shame, that you’ve mustered empty—because you broke them— bubbles of words of promise to the one you love and trampled on his intimacy and his goodness towards you. That is partly why God made you man or woman, so as to relate to these facts.

On the other hand if you have always been faithful to your significant other, then you understand what it means to be madly in love with that person, you understand what it is like to have undivided attention, ecstatic love, intimacy and care for someone and gladly rejoice that your love was able to withstand all trials life brought on your plate.

This is why you were created man or woman and it’s probably for this reason that the Bible teaches marriage as a parable of brevity referring to the eternal love of Christ for his bride: the church.