After having been warned that the undertow at a beautiful beach was the most dangerous in the world, I was shocked at how strong the temptation was to discard intelligent restraint and plunge into the water—warning or no warning! An adulterous relationship can be as alluring to one as that surf was to me.
It's clear from the Bible record that a characteristic of spiritual luminaries was their ability to see beyond the seeming, the material look of things.