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“Don’t Cry For Days in Argentina”

 

Hello, I’m Doug Apple…with Apples of Gold.

“It began very innocently, as I suspect many of these things do.”

That’s what South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said yesterday.

At a press conference.

About his affair.

This is the governor that was missing for a few days and was supposedly backpacking.

Turns out he was in Argentina with his lover.

While his wife and four sons and everyone else wondered where he was.

So was it the rip-roaring good time he had anticipated?

You know, that’s the funny thing about sin.  It just never quite delivers on its promise.

Listen to what Governor Sanford said.  “I spent the last five days of my life crying in Argentina.”

Wreckage is the word that comes to mind.

Wreckage.

This man’s life is wreckage.

And it all could have been avoided so easily.

Proverbs 11:5 says, “The righteousness of the blameless makes a straight way for them…”

When your way is straight, you don’t end up as wreckage.  You don’t end up crying for days in Argentina.

Well the governor said it began very innocently, and I can believe that. 

Now did you know that the press has released some e-mails that these two sent each other?  Interesting how what’s whispered in the house ends up shouted from the housetops.

Anyway, in one of the e-mails this is what he wrote to the woman:  “As I have said to you before, I certainly had a special feeling about you from the first time we met…”

Okay, this is where it began.  It started when he had that special feeling.  Yes, that’s innocent enough.  He was probably minding his own business, not looking for trouble, then he met this woman and whoops, there’s that special feeling.

It could happen to anyone.  Probably happens to everyone.  But the question is, what do you do with it?

Well here is my advice.  To avoid crying for days in Argentina, to avoid becoming wreckage, you just have to label some people as Dangerous People.

That’s right.  In your life there will be a handful of Dangerous People that you simply have to avoid.

Now I’m talking to you married folks out there.  You are married.  You have a marriage covenant with your spouse, until death do you part.  You are all their’s, and they are all yours.

That means you must beware of that “special feeling.”  It’s the tingle.  It’s the fairy dust.  Cupid.  Whatever you want to call that little romantic charge.  That attraction. 

As soon as you feel that toward someone, and you are already married, then you must label that person a Dangerous Person and avoid them.

“But Doug, that’s kind of rude.”

Look.  Protecting your marriage requires boundaries.  Walls.  And walls can seem rude, but without walls, attacks come too easily.

The governor did not throw up a wall.  Instead, he made friends with this woman who gave him that special feeling. 

Now that may still seem innocent enough, but actually it just makes him a simpleton. 

Now I’m thinking of the phrase in Proverbs about a rod to a fool’s back.  If you’re going to be foolish, you will end up with the rod.

Governor Sanford has a rod to his back right now.  And even when the publicity dies down, he will forever be dealing with the turmoil within his marriage and family.  And it’s probably wrecked his chances to advance in politics – bad news for a man whom some considered a presidential candidate.

Well it’s too late for him, but let it be a warning to you.

There are some people who will come into your life that, as a married person, you simply must label them as Dangerous.  You must avoid them.

To protect your marriage, you need solid boundaries, and one of these boundaries is staying away from anyone who gives you that “special feeling.”  As soon as you notice it, label them as Dangerous and stay away.

This is wisdom.  This will help keep you blameless before the Lord.

And instead of dealing with so much wreckage, like it says in Proverbs, the righteousness of the blameless will make a straight way for you. 


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May God bless you today!  With Apples of Gold…I’m Doug Apple.

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