Proverbs 5:15-19 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the street. Let your fountain be blessed and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a loving hind, a graceful doe, let her affections fill you at all times with delight…
Happy Day After Valentines Day!
USA Today newspaper ran an article yesterday about web sites that cater to those who are sexually dissatisfied their marriage. These web sites offer ‘discrete’ hook-ups or opportunities to meet with others who are equally dissatisfied and who are interested in having an affair. Supposedly, some of these web sites have members or visitors numbering in the tens of MILLIONS of people. Amazingly, these peddlers of adultery actually think that they are offering a service that actually helps marriages. Obviously, others in the Faith STRONGLY disagree. One of the web sites founders said that the DAY AFTER VALENTINES day is one of their heaviest volumes of traffic. Evidently, married folks who expected to ‘get lucky’ on Valentines Day did NOT have their expectations met and in their anger/ frustration decided to turn to adultery.
This is so SAD. Yet, it is NOT surprising. The world is NOT our friend. Proverbs 4:14-17 says, “Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble. For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.”
It is also SAD that many Christian couples find dissatisfaction in the physical intimacy aspect of marriage. From my limited sphere of influence, numerous men confide in me the absence of frequent, meaningful intimacy with their wives. And it is NOT a one-way street. Women confide that they are desirous of intimacy, but their husbands don’t have either the willingness or desire to meet their needs. The Lord addresses this issue head on in 1 Cor. 7:1-8, “Because of the temptation for immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband… Husbands, you don’t own your own body but the wife does. Wives, you don’t own you own body but the husband does… Do not refuse each other sexually except by MUTUAL agreement for a short time for the purposes of prayer lest Satan tempt you through the lack of self control…”
One of the quickest ways to introduce Satan into the marriage equation is for either partner to refuse their partner the basics of conjugal rights. With the proliferation of sites encouraging and promoting adultery, the appearance and promise of being ‘discreet’ or anonymous, and the lure of ‘fun’ or ‘excitement’, many are falling into the deceitful trap of adultery.
If you are married, I urge you to cultivate the marriage relationship. Date your spouse. Go back to your ‘first love’ when you were in the infatuation stage of the relationship. During that time, your partner could do no wrong. You chose to see your mate in ‘rose colored’ glasses. Prov. 5 says we are to fight to maintain this level of love. Proverbs 5:19ff says in referring to your wife: “Be infatuated always with her love. Why should you be infatuated with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventurous? For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord and He watches all his steps. The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him and he is caught in the toils of sin. He dies for lack of discipline and because of his great folly he is lost…”
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