RIGHT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING IN EDEN, Marriage was a Blessing that surpassed Honey in sweetness. There was much honey in Eden because the Bees didn’t wait until after the Fall to begin their core industry of honey production. And Bees had not grown wild and stinging then, like they are today. So, Adam had so much honey. Yet, God concluded that his solitary existence was not good. And what was His answer for this need? The sweetest of all things: MARRIAGE, A SPOUSE, A LEGITIMATE LOVER!
Dearly Beloved, in giving you a Spouse, God has given you a very precious and blessed personality that you must hold close to your heart EVERY DAY, love joyfully EVERY DAY, and cherish zestfully EVERY DAY!
Our anchor scripture for today tells you to WATCH HOW YOU LIVE. This includes how you live with your Spouse. God wants you to LIVE WISELY with your husband or Wife. Anything less than A WISE LIVING is far beneath His expectation of you. He wants you to ensure that YOU’RE NOT UNWISE but that you make the most of every opportunity including your marital opportunity.
Yes, you’ve been opportune by God to be married to the husband of your dreams: a godly, humble and nice gentleman. But what are you doing with this man? You’re frustrating him, fighting him, nagging him, denying him of sexual intimacy. And when your friends tell you that you’re unduly harsh to such a harmless gentleman that God has graciously blessed you with, you chuckle proudly and tell them: “See girls, I know what I’m doing. If you don’t treat men like that, they’ll feel they’re too good for you.” But do you know what? You’re being UNWISE! And that’s what our anchor scripture tells you to avoid!
In December 1979, I attended my first Christian Conference ever. It’s a Conference I can never forget. We had several anointed ministers in that meeting. Towards the end of the holy convocation, a Man of God came up that caught my immediate attention because of his striking appearance. He was dark in complexion and spectacularly handsome!! That day, he preached on Soul Winning and the song he taught us as part of his teaching remains with me forever. He didn’t go far in his ministration before it became obvious that he wasn’t your run of the mill preacher but a choice and heavily anointed vessel of the Lord. Sadly, as I later got to know, he had a Wife who didn’t value the precious marriage partner God had blessed her with but would harass him again and again. She probably thought she was being bold but the truth is: she was demonstrating her FOLLY. Exactly what our anchor scripture warns against.
On my Wedding day, thirty two years ago, it was my privilege to have a soundly born again Brother in Christ and an erudite scholar Chair my Reception Party. He was also a handsome gentleman and an Academic but unfortunately his wife turned out to be “an unwise” woman and a sadist who derived joy from embarrassing him and making him miserable. She denied him Sex continually for five years. Because he feared God and wouldn’t revenge, she persisted with her cruelty until he eventually died! Today, she’s a widow. With the “marriage market” saturated with so many younger women, which man would hear the story of how she grinded her former husband with the stone of cruelty and still want her for a Wife?
Perhaps, you’re that Husbands who’s been blessed with a wife of your dreams. Many of the qualities you cherish in women are in her but instead of lavishing your affection and devotion on her, you’re fooling around with strange women, thinking that, that’s how to be a “Big Man”. Do you still need to told that you’re treading a deadly path that leads to ruin and tragedy? It’s my earnest prayer that God Almighty open your eyes to know the value of your wife and to begin to esteem, treasure and love her as you ought.
Your Marriage Partner is to be handled in only one way always: WITH LOVE; WITH MORE LOVE; WITH MUCH, MUCH, MORE LOVE; WITH INTENSIFIED LOVE; WITH BLAZING LOVE; WITH UNCONDITIONAL LOVE; WITH UNRELENTING LOVE; WITH UNFAILING LOVE; WITH UNDYING LOVE. That’s what Marriage is all about: LOVING YOUR SPOUSE ENDLESSLY, CEASELESSLY AND UNTIRINGLY!
💕❤️ TODAY’S ONE FLESH ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM
Sit down together and reflect on your marital journey thus far.
Don’t you think it’s time to shift your mutual focus on Marriage from just being satisfied with living together harmoniously to maximizing your union by LOVING EACH OTHER MORE INTENSELY EVERY NEW DAY? HOW ABOUT INCREASING YOUR MUTUAL USAGE OF ROMANCE AND SEXUAL INTIMACY? START TONIGHT. MAY BE JUST IN A SMALL WAY. YOU CAN!
❤️💕🌴MARRIAGE REVOLUTION CONTINUES!💕💞❤️💕