LOVEBIRDS' DEVOTIONAL

Enriching Matrimonies

Great Secret: Don’t Be Malodorous(Pt. 2)

Scripture:
‘Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)’
(Esther 2:12)

TO MAXIMIZE YOUR MARRIAGE, beauty and handsomeness and your physical endowment are good but you also need what I would call “The Power of Olfactory Attractiveness”. The need for and the importance of this Power is highlighted in our anchor scripture for today.

After the dethronement of Queen Vashti, a new wife was sought by King Ahasuerus to replace her as Queen. To this end, spectacularly beautiful girls were sought and selected from different parts of the kingdom of King Ahasuerus.

Ordinarily, one would think that the successful gathering of the beautiful girls would proceed quickly to the selection of the most beautiful to fill the gap that Vashti’s dethronement had created. But NO! The next thing was to GIVE THE GIRLS BODY TREATMENT THAT WOULD MAKE THEM SWEET SMELLING OR FRAGRANT!

According to our anchor scripture, Myrrh was used to give the girls body treatment for six long months!! Remember Myrrh is one the best sources of fragrance on earth. As if this wasn’t enough, SWEET ODOURS was used for additional six months to INTENSIFY the fragrance of the Bodies of the girls, before each would have the opportunity of coming into CLOSE CONTACT with the King. The ancients thought it wise for a prospective royal bride TO HAVE A BODY WHOSE NATURAL ODOURS HAD BEEN STRONGLY TAMED AND SUBDUED before coming into close contact with his imperial majesty, the King!

Yes, our bodies emit odours which intensity differ from person to person, but are all nonetheless negative. It’s important that as a Spouse you know your body odour type and know how and what time of the day to subdue it before it becomes a nuisance to your spouse, your family members, colleagues at work and others who would come into close contact with you in the course of the day.

The mentality of 95% of Spouses is that the time to look sweet, smell sweet and make themselves “yummy and huggable” is when they’re going out for special occasions such as Weddings, Sunday Services, Birthday Parties of friends, Anniversary celebrations, etc and so they wait until such times before they give themselves a super scrub with sponge and soap and then follow it up with a time consumming session of creaming the body delicately, dressing super-good and using that special Body spray or expensive perfume. But this is wrong. Everyday is a special day to give your body a super scrub, cream yourself and present yourself to the most distinguished human personality in your life: YOUR SPOUSE!!! Don’t be scenty and fragrant for outsiders to enjoy but fetid and stinking for your spouse to endure! It’s unfair.
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Discuss today’s devotional piece and when next occasion permits it, have a bathe together. During this time of joint bathe, give each other a good back scrub with sponge and soap and water. Many Spouses have darkened back because they don’t give attention to that part of the body when bathing alone.
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