🌐🩵🐬🧊When you go to the hospital, you hear of syringes, needles, injections, operation theatres, wards, drugs, patients, etc. These are permanent features of the hospital system as a healthcare delivery institution.
🌐🩵🐬🧊OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS
When you go to a five-star hotel, it has its peculiar features and vocabulary with which its workers are very conversant. It’s the same thing with prisons, printing presses, banks, insurance houses, etc.
🚙All these show that every domain or “world” has the things that constitute its “life” and enable it to function optimally, thereby delivering satisfactory services to its clients, customers, and service users in general. And God commands us not to alter or change good and well-established orders:
📖”Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.” (Proverbs 22:28).
🛢️We must not, in the name of modernity, seek to modify standards that God long ago set up:
📖”Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” (Jeremiah 6:16).
🌐🩵🐬🧊MARRIAGE: A DISTINCT AND PECULIAR WORLD!
Marriage is a distinct and unique world of its own, with things that specially belong to it.
🪩No matter who you are, when you get married, do not disregard living the married life as God ordained it. If you do, it’s just a matter of time before your union begins to falter and stumble, and then finally falls calamitously.
🥏You don’t come into marriage and proceed to modify or change its God-ordained lifestyle. You simply cannot succeed that way!
🌐🩵🐬🧊ONCE UPON A TIME
There was once a man who followed God closely, and God gave him light and insights into married love. He even wrote a beautiful book that carries amazing insights and secrets about how love, affection, and romance work. But he later swerved from the beautiful path that God had shown him and embraced extreme polygamy. Alas, the same women he married in disobedience to God’s Word became his undoing, as they turned his heart away from God towards graven images. He became an apostate and died before his time.
💎Another fellow, a churchman, was divinely favoured with open doors, progress, and international visibility. He married a lady of good pedigree. And then he chose an alternative marital lifestyle that God had never commanded. He established a commune of wives. It looked “hip” and “glamorous” at the time, as the press gleefully wrote about it, and it made the headlines in the big newspapers of the day. But when a deadly pandemic swept across the face of the earth, he became one of its tragic victims and died before his time.
🩵Do you want to enjoy your marriage and end well with it? Then do not be wise in your own eyes or devise so-called “new methods” of practising it, because if you do, you will not end well. The Bible says:
📖”Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.” (Proverbs 3:7).
🌐🩵🐬🧊DON’T LET AGE, PROMOTION IN THE WORKPLACE, ETC., MAKE YOU NEGLIGENT OF YOUR MARRIAGE!
Kissing, embracing, hugging, companionship, submission by the wife to her husband, Christ-like love for the wife by the husband, non-sexual interactions, constant sexual intimacy, and all the other amazing features of marriage that you have been taught as married couples should not be abandoned simply because you are now in your nineties, have become a great-grandmother or great-grandfather, or have been appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations, etc.
💧Marriage is a foundational and fundamental blessing of life that you must not allow another blessing to eclipse, downsize, or crush. God never intends for His blessings to counteract one another.
🫧I have read of a married woman who got an international job and spent an unhealthy length of time away at her foreign station. Her husband, a highly respected professional gentleman, eventually fell into infidelity. The lady, in a sense, albeit unintentionally, traded her marriage for success on the job. And that is not wisdom, because her husband’s integrity became indelibly smeared, and that was a big minus.
🥣The blessings of God do not lead to sorrow (Proverbs 10:22). When they do, it is the recipient of the blessing who has mismanaged it, leading to heartbreak and grief. It is never God’s fault.
🌐🩵🐬🧊CONCLUSION
At no time should you suspend, pause, or place an embargo on any of the practices of married life, as long as you and your spouse are both alive and healthy.
🫙There never comes a time when you can afford to take your marriage relationship with your husband or wife less seriously than before. As a matter of fact, you ought to take your marriage more seriously now that you are older than you did earlier. Why? One reason, among many others, is that the Old Serpent, Satan, is still on your trail, seeking ways to lure you into a sexual scandal that will ruin everything you have taken years to build.
🛳️Therefore, practise biblical marriage more earnestly and zealously than ever before. Value your spouse more dearly than ever. Esteem sexual intimacy more highly now than you ever did. The fact that you have been intimate with each other literally thousands of times does not mean you can now afford to adopt a nonchalant attitude towards it, as that would amount to foolishly playing into the enemy’s hands.
🌐A word, they say, is enough for the wise! 🧊🐬
💕♥️Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment: Re-read this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it with open and sincere hearts.
✝️Altar Call: Jesus Christ is calling you! Come to Him today in genuine repentance. Believe in Him and be saved!
📚📖✒️Quotes For Reflection:
“Even though Abraham and Sarah were already old and advanced in age, Abraham continually saw nothing but beauty in his wife. Sarah on her part didn’t see herself as a tired old hag that should stop looking sweet.
They were already in the Grandfather and Grandmother age bracket but they kept the fire of their love and marriage burning high!”(From Lovebirds’ Devotional, June 5, 2025)
🧪⚗️Scientific Info To Boost Your Marriage:
🔬”Engaging in a routine of daily, extended kissing—even for prolonged periods like 20 minutes—profoundly impacts both physical health and marital bonding. While relationship experts like the Gottman Institute frequently highlight the power of a “6-second kiss” to reset the nervous system, a lingering, routine daily kiss provides compound biological and psychological benefits.”🔬
📢HALLELUJAH!
🎷PRAISE THE LORD!
🚨Please, share the LINK of this devotional message to at least TEN of your married friends and contacts!!🚨