Friday August 11th, 2023
« Have respect for marriage. Always be faithful to your partner, because God will punish anyone who is immoral or unfaithful in marriage. »
15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets?
17Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you.
18Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19As a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and always be enraptured with her love.
20For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, and be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He ponders all his paths.
Whichever way you look at it, marriage is honorable, and this is why those who have rebelled against God in their sexual orientation want to cloak their dishonorable lifestyle with the honor God has bestowed on marriage.
Despite what the world is trying to turn it into, the institution of marriage remains God’s perfect arrangement to meet the needs of companionship between a man and a woman who are adults.
If discovering and choosing to love a person is beautiful in courtship is exciting, solemnizing a union in a wedding ceremony is divine.
After a couple is joined together in holy matrimony and God’s blessings are pronounced on them, they become partners in a sacred institution.
The sanctity of marriage is not a figment of human imagination. God indeed designed marriage to be holy, and so it should be approached with great respect and due veneration.
This is why today’s memory verse describes marriage as honorable and advise against defiling it, with a strong warning that God’s judgement will fall on anyone who indulges in sexual immorality in marriage.
Another reason why God created the institution of marriage is the need to satisfy sexual desire within an environment of accountability and responsibility.
God wants married couples to find sexual satisfaction in marriage (1 Corinthians 7:2).
In His infinite wisdom, He provided marital sex as a wise alternative to infidelity and sexual disorder.
Today’s bible reading says you should drink water out of your own cistern, meaning that sexual thirst should only be satisfied within the privacy of marriage.
Furthermore, sexual body and sexual acts are not public property to be shared with strangers (Proverbs 5:16-17).
‘Strangers’ in this context refers to anyone who has not “Known” you through marriage (Genesis 4:1).
Only within marriage did God bless uninhibited sexual joys (Proverbs 5:18-19).
Take note that God deliberately used the words “at all times” and “always” in Proverbs 5:19, to remove limits from a married couple’s sexual enjoyment of each other (1 Corinthians 7:3-5).
Brethren, please abstain from sex outside marriage, for God has promised to judge all fornicators and adulterers (Hebrews 13:4).
Your momentary sinful pleasure is liable for eternal judgment, so ask yourself, is it really worth it (Proverbs 5:20)?
He who created all things in heaven and earth for His own pleasure has every right to guide human affairs in conformity with His supreme purpose.
Think on these things, and may God engrave them on the tablet of your heart in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer point: Father, please uphold every marriage and let Your power reign in every home, in Jesus’ Name
Prayer point: Father, please count me worthy to be among the blessed remnant- the faithful, favored few.
Author: Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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