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!
Love is indeed a beautiful and precious gift! Many thanks for sharing this amazing piece.
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Thank you @globalfoodbook. Love is my passion, my wish for everyone is to have a wonderful and enjoyable marriage as everyone deserves to be happy. Thank you for your support, I really appreciate it.
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It is my pleasure. I also concur to your wish!
All the best.
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Great post. Thanks for sharing the helpful marriage information from God's Word.
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Thank you for your nice comment, the pleasure is all mine!
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God's way is always the perfect way. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you enjoywithtroy. Yes He is perfect in all of His instructions. Hope you are well?
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Great post. God only wants what is good for us and marriage is one important example of this.
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Thank you @steemtruth for your nice comment! I am so thankful for my husband and my marriage
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Love is a precious gift and we are so blessed if we have it have a great day!
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Thank you @stardust, may have a wonderful day too.
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I have an older friend who refuses to go to the state for "permission on his marriage". Many look down on him for it. He dated this woman for a few years and I know he did not confirm the marriage before he was ready to because he came to me more than once in moments of weakness to have someone to lean on. He finally consummated his marriage and the two are now happily married. He brings up the same Genesis verse you did and it's amazing how people refuse to see the facts of his stance as it comes directly from the Bible. I am thrilled you touched on this subject.
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Thank you for sharing your friend's story and your comment. I feel very strongly about it. If we as Christian parent's taught this truth to our children that they will have a stronger motivation to withhold from having sex. Although our whole new system of upbringing goes against our natural instincts. Mary was only 13 when she conceived Jesus. Now people have to have the whole world, first the education into their twenties, then the career, the money, the car and the house, before going into a marriage. In such circumstances, I believe it is impossible to abstain from having sex.
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My wife and I speak about this quite frequently. My step-mother was married at a fairly young age. I am of the belief that when a person is old enough to procreate they are an adult. However, I tell my wife. Let's use the current paradigm of society to our benefit in regard to the children. The extra five years we have at home with them can be used to teach life lessons that many will learn when they are 18-23. I do believe your morals are ingrained by the time you are 13, but we can use this extra time to help our children refine theirs and hopefully learn from mistakes they make make before society holds them as accountable "adults".
You are welcome for the share.
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I agree with you. I just think the way children was brought up in biblical times prepares them for adulthood very sooner than today. Today's kids won't be ready at 13 to be a parent. Quite frankly I am glad that I did not had to be a mommy at 13, I enjoyed my high school years too much. :-) Wonderful carefree days. But here in South Africa there is a lot of teenage pregnancies. The communities are poor and sometimes parentless due to deaths of Aids and then they become mummies at this young ages in such bad circumstances. It is sad.
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I will think of this statement more when I am raising my children. I know I can look to the Bible for reference in this regard. Not that I want my children to be parents at 13, but you bring up a very solid point. I do forget sometimes that you live in S.Africa and see teenage parenthood at a very high rate. I would like to think this would not happen in regard to the children, but I have to think realistically.What if it did happen. Would they be prepared?
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You are a deep thinker, my friend! I am off to bed as it is 3h19am here.
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