‘Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. She is a loving deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love.’ Proverbs 5:18-19(NLT)
‘The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife. Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ‘ 1 Corinthians 7:3-5(NLT)
Finally! It took three days, but now we’re getting to the good stuff. We’re talking about sex.
Sex is a wonderful, God-created act that has almost as many facets as it does ways to engage in it. The problem is that our warped cultural perception often infiltrates even our Godly thinking about sex. And that’s when we start to get away from a love that lasts.
If you want to build a love that lasts, start with this foundational thinking about sex: God created it to build intimacy between you, and the way that intimacy gets built is through service.
Sex isn’t about you. It’s about them.
Sex isn’t self-serving – it’s spouse-serving and couple-serving. You aren’t lounging in the marital bed to make yourself feel good – you’re there to generate intimacy and mutuality between the two of you.
So, yes, if you want to build a love that lasts, keep having sex! But remember that sex is a beautiful, creative act that takes on so much more meaning – and pleasure – when you serve one another.
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