Dr. Mike Oluniyi.
Often, you covetously look at another person’s spouse and have the feeling that your own spouse doesn’t measure up. You wonder what life would look like if the other woman or man were your spouse. Although you are still at home, your life may be likened to that of the prodigal son;
Luke 15:12-13
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Because you are already into emotional affairs, your spouse seems not to know how to do anything the right way. Like the prodigal son, it is like you don’t have so much at stake at home again. In fact, if not for what the church and society would say, you would have physically moved out and put everything in your family in jeopardy.
A lot of people have shipwrecked their home as a result of imagining that there is greener pasture outside, treating their spouse and children as if they don’t matter. When you are in such situation, your home cannot be a pleasant place to be because though you are physically present at home, you are already emotionally attached to someone else. You will magnify every offense of your spouse and even that of your children because you have already left home in your thoughts and engrossed with the imagination of been freed from the imaginary ‘prison’ of your home. Some have even physically abandoned their family and wasted the resources that should have been used for their family on others while the family suffers.
Whether in your thought as a result of emotional affairs or you have actually left home, why don’t you return back home like the prodigal son. I am sure your family is waiting for you to come back home to them emotionally and be what you used to be to them.
“And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had in
Lk.15:18
Your spouse will definitely welcome you back home just like the father of the prodigal son did because that is really where you belong. Please note that it is covetousness that makes a man or woman to feel that there is greener pasture outside his or her matrimonial home. Even if there are some brown patches in your lawn, if you can come back home to wet it, the brown will soon become green again.
