In July 1979, when I was about making my first journey home to my parents after getting born again, my Disciplers instructed me to locate a Christian fellowship in Ilorin where I was going and join them.
As soon as I arrived Ilorin, I began looking for a fellowship and found one at the ECWA Youth center.
My Disciplers instructions seemed highly prophetic because my obedience to them led to an explosive and rapid growth in my spiritual life.
At the ECWA Youth center, I enjoyed a robust weekly fellowship. I was strongly impacted by the zeal of the brethren for Evangelism. The ECWA bookshop was available for me to buy christian books and I remember buying Al Lindsay’s book, “Satan Is Alive And Well On Planet Earth.”
During that holiday, Prophet Obadare came to the center for a three day programme and it was explosive. As if all these weren’t enough, Evangelist E. A. Omo-Oba Jesu, who was highly popular at the time, also came for another programme at the centre. I returned to Idah robust in faith and began personal evangelism by myself in the police barracks just as the brethren at the ECWA youth center were going to Sobi Barracks in Ilorin to win souls.
In our anchor scripture, Apostle Peter exhorts us to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ(2 Peter 3:18)
As Believers, spiritual growth isn’t an option. It’s a must.
Similarly, we need to also grow in love once we get married. You mustn’t remain at the level of your initial love. You need to progress from the basic love by which you were drawn to each other and got married to the heights of cherishing each other and then on to the higher level of worshipping each other.
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1) Your Basic Love.
When you first saw each other, something drew you to one another leading to courtship and marriage. That magical thing is called Love.
But in marriage you’ll face challenges of diverse types and you’ll therefore need to grow stronger love muscles.
One the challenges you’ll face is the temptation to unfaithfulness. When you’re not strong in your love for your Mate, there’s a tendency to fall into such temptations.
My Disciplers told me to join a fellowship so that I would grow in Faith so that the allures of life in the big city won’t sweep me off my feet spiritually. And my obedience to them led me to a world of massive spiritual growth. Consequently, nothing in the big city could draw me away from my new Saviour, Jesus Christ.
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2) The Love That Cherishes.
To cherish someone is to greatly love them and hold them as very dear. It’s to highly treasure and cling to them very fondly.
On this level of Love, your spouse would be so dear to your heart you’d be highly protective of them. You’ll care for them willingly and hover around them like butterflies do flowers.
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3) The Love That Worships.
Before we go further, it’s important you understand that the worship here isn’t in competition with the worship of God because it’s not idolatrous. It’s not making your spouse a god. No!
Worshipping your spouse is to be devoted to them with deep love. It means, you have a deep and growing affection, passion and adoration for them. You’re fanatical about them. Despite their faults, you’re “blind” to those faults and are instead intoxicated with their person.
This is the kind of love we see in the Song of Solomon.
We see it also in Christ as He did the most unusual in his relationship with his disciples: He constantly served them during meals for 3½ years and He washed their feet on the eve of His crucifixion.
He saw crucifixion and death and openly walked into them just because if He didn’t, we would perish. That’s the worship level of Love. It counts the object of it’s love worthy of any sacrifice.
Spouses who adore and worship each other will be totally loyal to each other, even in the face of death.
The so-called “cheating” is filth to them and can never draw their attention.
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Beloved, where are you at this time in your relationship with your husband or wife? Are you still on the level of your basic love or you’ve moved up to cherishing each other? Or have reached the level of Worship?
Ensure you’re growing in Love. Ensure you get to the level where you adore and worship your Spouse.
💕❤️TONIGHT’S ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM
Just before bedtime, reread this devotional piece together and discuss it.
JESUS IS LORD FOREVER! IF YOU HAVEN’T YET RECEIVED HIM, ASK HIM TO COME INTO YOUR HEART NOW AND SAVE YOU; AND HE WILL.
Author: ANSELM AHMAN; +234 8034675321
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