MANY MARRIAGES ARE COLD BECAUSE the Spouses are maritally passive and largely inactive. And in some of such marriages, this goes on for whole weeks and sometimes months!
Such a coexistence negates or makes ineffective God’s purpose for instituting Marriage. It also creates a conducive environment for thoughts of extramarital affairs to spring up silently in the mind of one or both Spouses.
In so many marriages, Spouses are so preoccupied with making a living that they have no time to LIVE. The quest for material acquisition and the ambition to go higher on the ladder of success is so consuming that the relationship between them and their partner is relegated to somewhere far down on the list of their priorities.
Beloved, it wasn’t so in the Beginning.
In the Beginning, labour was attended to but living took more of the time. The result was that living was sweet. And sweet living makes room for loving; and loving renews, refreshes, reinvigorates and enriches life itself.
Marriage is far more than just living under the same roof, eating from the same pot and sleeping on the same bed. Marriage is the ACTIVE blending of two lives.
Marriage demands living together and with each other; seeing each other, touching each other, smelling each other; physically tasting your Spouse and sharing one another EVERYDAY!
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Our anchor scripture shows the phase of Isaac and Rebecca’s life when they were forced by famine to leave the comfort of their cozy home by the Well Lahairoi for the land of the Philistines. Suddenly, they were in a new environment not by choice but because of unavoidable circumstances. Now, here’s the lesson: even in those circumstances, they ensured that they didn’t reduce the intensity and fervour of their love life! They refused to let the unfriendly turn of events make them become romantically docile and sexually lukewarm.
We have no idea why their place of abode in Gerar was so close to the King’s palace. But because they were used to daytime love life, as every truly romantic couple should be, they made love in afternoon and the King looked through the window and saw them.
Sir, Ma, Matrimonial romancing and sexual intimacy are not nurcturnal activities to be confined strictly to night seasons only. They’re not part of the unfruitful works of darkness which Believers are commanded to refrain from(Ephesians 5:11). They are activities of love, life and light within Marriage and that’s why God’s Word authoritatively declares them as pure and undefiled (Hebrews 13:4a).
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Spouses, please listen. Marriage is not a title or a rank. It is a life. Live it fully, live it boldly and audaciously; and without apologies.
Always remember this: your Spouse is not a well carved sculpture you bought from the Art Shop to decorate your sitting room. Your husband or wife is a red-blooded adult human being with romantic and sexual thirsts and cravings; and you’re the only one assigned by God to satisfy them. Do not always wait to be reminded of your marital duties.
Enough of the dullness and inaction. Let your marriage be daily full of romantic love and action;
so much so that when GOD looks at your union from Heaven, He will be pleased with it and to give it His divine nod of holy approval.
💕❤️TONIGHT’S ONE FLESH ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM
Reread today’s devotional piece together and discuss it.
JESUS IS LORD FOREVER!!!
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