True Story of A Failed Affair (Sermon Illustration)

Marriage is hard and affairs come easy. Today, an affair is just a mouse click away. But the reality of an affair is always worse than temptation’s promise.

True story:

He called himself “Prince of Joy.” In an Internet chat room, he met a young lady whose screen name was “Sweetie.”

Over the next few days, they spent hours chatting and flirting online, sharing their secrets and getting to know each other. They found they had a lot in common. They lived in the same city. He was 32; she was 27. Both were stuck in miserable marriages, though they had not yet talked to their spouses about divorce.

Though they had known each other for less than a week and had never met face to face, they felt that they were falling in love. So they arranged a date at a local restaurant.

When Prince of Joy arrived at the restaurant, he found Sweetie waiting for him and was surprised to discover—Sweetie was his own wife!

So Prince of Joy and Sweetie ended up in divorce court, accusing each other of adultery—even though they were unwittingly having an online affair with each other.

Looking back on the embarrassing experience, Sweetie said, “We seemed to be stuck in the same kind of miserable marriage. How right that turned out to be!” Prince of Joy reflected, “I still find It hard to believe that Sweetie, who wrote such wonderful thin gs, is actually the same woman I married and who has not said a nice word to me for years.”

This is what we’ve come to. We can find any guilty pleasure—and even be unfaithful to our marriage vows—with a few mouse clicks. And we never know who we might be flirting with in that online chat room.

Pat Williams and Jim Denny, What Are You Living For? (Ventura, CA: Regal, 2008), 82.

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