I believe the general consensus of someone who would embrace a cactus could be summarized with the word “stupid.” That would make as much sense as building a campfire on one’s lap to stay warm. There are many things that a person with normal intelligence is smart enough not to do. Then why do so many men succumb to adulterous affairs that have such painful results? Obviously those are only the ones who get caught. How many “fly” under the radar. Yet, God misses nothing. 

Just because you are a homeschooling family that identifies with Jesus Christ, and hopefully involved in a church, doesn’t mean you are not hugging a cactus to some degree. Oh my brothers, are you playing with fire? 

“Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent” (Proverbs 6:27-29).

How careful are you around women at work, at church, or when out and about? Are you cultivating lusts by what you watch or read or by your thoughts, thinking it’s harmless and everyone watches this stuff? The scariest words in Scripture to me are: “God gave them up/over.” Realize that at some point, God may say “Okay, if that is what you want, I’ll give you over to it.” (Romans 1:24, 26, 28) At that point, it is too late. If David, a man after God’s own heart can fall, anyone can fall if continuing in wrong choices. 

“And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will” (Acts 13:22).