IN ECCLESIASTES 7: 8, KING SOLOMON was divinely inspired to write, “BETTER IS THE END OF A THING than the beginning thereof”
Thousands of years after, another Servant of God, David Hocking, observed that: “IN GOD’S ECONOMY, OLDER IS BETTER”!
All these are inspired declarations that are absolutely true about life in Marriage.
In Marriage, as in the brewing of high-quality redwines, the Older, the Richer!
Never forget that!
In Marriage, The Older, the Richer; The Older, the Sweeter!
A husband or wife’s capacity to give satisfying romance, companionship, allegiance, affection, passion, sexual satisfaction and fulfillment increase with age and not the other way round(Psalm 92:12-14). This, however, becomes a practical reality when Spouses are closely attached to each other and are consistently active in their romantic and sexual life; just like iconic musicians are inseparably attached to their cherished musical instrument and never miss practicing it any day.
Such couples KEEP GROWING in their knowledge of one another and in their understanding of each other’s needs, desires, dreams and tastes.
During the recording of my first gospel music album in November 1985, I had the privilege of working with amazing Lagos-based musicians who were masters of their respective musical instruments. My Lead Guitarist, in particular, who went by the stage name: BULLY BROADMAN, was simply phenomenal. His virtuoso skills on the Lead Guitar was evident in every track of that album.
I just knew that, that level of mastery couldn’t have been arrived at in a few short years. And sustaining it would never be by an inconsistent and laissez-faire musical life.
When you hear great music Maestroes,
know that it took years of devotion, hard work and consistency on their instrument to play so well.
In Marriage, YOUR SPOUSE IS YOUR MUSICAL INSTRUMENT! But how good are you at “playing” them? How much time do you spend with them? What’s the depth of your understanding of their person, history, tastes, aspirations, sexual fantasies, turn on, turn offs, moods, favourite places they’d love to visit, etc?
How will you know how to make melodious music out of them when they are not your priority and everything else has your attention except them?
A beautiful and gleaming Acaustic Guitar is a mere piece of cedar wood with nylon or metal strings attached to it. It’s completely incapable of making music until a good Guitarist picks it up and begins to play it. And then you will begin to value what had been standing idle and gathering dust in one corner of your house for years! Your Spouse is like that Acaustic Guitar. He or she is loaded with glorious melodies but you must learn how to “play them”.
It may surprise you to hear that many had wonderfully gifted Spouses whom they never took time to “learn how play” by relating with them, spending time with them, going out with them, having pillow talks with them, giving them attention and listening to them, buying gifts for them: to really know them and “how to play them”.
But instead, they neglected, despised them and ended up divorcing them. And then someone else who knows how to handle a Spouse and “play them gently and melodiously” came along, married their former Spouse and now the melodious music of their new marriage is every where to the chagrin of the former Marriage Partner!
Marriage can be safely summarized in one word and that word is CLEAVING; and that’s exactly what Music Maestroes do: cleave to their instrument; cleave to their genre of music, cleave to their vocals, cleave to their songwriting and one day the world gets to hear of them!
You can have a melodious marriage! The secret is simple: cleave to your Spouse. Cleave firmly to each other.
When you and your spouse invest in cleaving to each other, you’ll find yourselves falling in love again and again and you’ll soon be head over heels in love anew. Yes!
And when you’re continually head over heels in love with each other, you’ll cherish intimacy with each other, you’ll have a new knowledge of one another that creates harmony between you and keeps all discord far away.
You’ll so enjoy the harmony and oneness that you’ll hate whatever would interrupt or bring it to an end. You’ll enjoy being in love with each other and being in love with your Spouse will become a rich nourishment that boosts your joy. I can talk about this because I have been there, by God’s grace.
When you get to that point where you have become musical in your love, your bedroom life becomes exactly what it really should be: SLEEPING. You’ll stop trying bedroom gymnastics and acrobatics that no one requires of you but your own ignorance, ego and assumptions.
Your bedroom life will become a melody of love that’s so enthralling you’ll many times not want the melody and harmony
to end.
And when you would have ended it because you must rest and give attention to other demands of life, the melody of your harmonious oneness will keep playing back in your minds: days, weeks, months, years and indeed many years after. And the music will draw you closer, strengthening your bond of love and making you desire each other more and more and more.
🔥🔥🔥 FAITH DECREE:
🔥LET THE GRACE TO FUNCTION AS MUSICAL-LOVE COUPLES BE BESTOWED ON EVERY READER THAT’S DESIROUS OF IT!⚡
🍷🍗 TAKE-HOME LESSON: YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO GROW RICHER AND SWEETER AS YOU AGE.
THE SECRET IS TO CLEAVE TO EACH OTHER AND YOUR MARRIAGE WILL BE A MELODIOUS UNION!
💕❤️ TONIGHT’S ONE FLESH ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM
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