On Sundays, I share a message out of the Bible about love and marriage.
As I was this past week busy with a series of posts on the role of sex in the marriage, I want to share with you what the Bible teach about this.
God was the creator of Adam and Eve. He made their bodies beautiful and perfect for each other's enjoyment. Sex is something beautiful within the boundaries of a loving marriage or a long term relationship. If you are together and you became one flesh, then you are married in the eyes of God.
In the beginning of the Bible, there were no marriage ceremonies, that custom only started later on in the Bible. A couple got married when they became one flesh.
Gen 24:67 "Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her."
This is something serious I believe we must also teach our children. You can not sleep with every second person. Your soul will be damaged, it will leave its mark on you psychologically. This is especially true of a woman because she is more emotional than a man. Some men can convince themselves that they just want sex, but in the long run, they will be searching for one partner to be with as this is how God created us. So if a marriage takes places at the moment you become one flesh, then each time you leave a partner it constitutes a divorce.
So within these safe boundaries that God created. the Bible is clear that our bodies and sex was something beautiful and wonderful that God blesses us with.
Proverbs 5:18 "May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love."
Nor wives or husbands must be selfish and withhold sex from your spouse. The instructions in the Bible as stated hereunder are clear. Regular sex not only bonds you in a very special way, it also helps spouses to resist worldly temptations like to give into an affair, looking at pornography to name just two.
1 Corinthians 7: 3-7 "Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control."
So let us seriously consider these scriptures and rejoice in the fact that God gave us love as a beautiful and precious gift. He wants us to have a joyful and enjoyable life together.
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Thank you for reading, I would love to hear what you think.
May you have a blessed Sunday!
