Day 31: Love is Intimate
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1 Corinthians 7: 2-5 says, "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render (give) unto the wife due benevolence (sexual gratification you owe her): and like wise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of his own body, but the husband. Defraud ye not one the other except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
When
a wife is not interested in her husbands most consuming passion, her
husband will begin to feel that she is not interested in him. Even
though she may not intend for that to be the sake, it is simply that her
disinterest in him is a reflection of her heart and her husband will
know it. Desire simply builds on desire.
When you truly love, and reverence your husband, the very though of him loving the likes of you should thrill your soul and make you long to cause him pleasure. Debbie Pearl
Heart: One
of my favorite authors on intimacy is Debbie Pearl. She seems like the
most homely woman in the world, the woman who teaches others on being
the wife God intends us to be. She is doing the work that many of our
mothers and grandmothers thought was unsuitable to do. She gets to the
heart of the matter with our husbands and does not hesitate to talk
about intimacy.
So,
intimacy with our husbands should be an open, godly conversation that
we are not afraid to have with other wives. It is how we learn and how
we are supposed to be taught. I love that Mrs. Pearl views sex with her
husband as a ministry, one that is a selfless act.
Ephesians 5:32 "This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.
Even
sex is so beautiful that God uses it to illustrate the union of Christ
and the Church. It is something that is sweet, special and necessary.
God expects us as wives to answer our husbands needs and to do so
with joy. He wants us to study on our husbands so that we will know his
needs before he is even aware of them and to think only of our husbands
so that will be eager to please him and be pleased.
It
is not unnatural for a husband to have a greater desire than his wife,
and we should not make our husbands feel bad for it. On the flip side,
we should be proud that our husbands have a desire for us.
Hands:
Make a list of how you are going to love your husband and make it as
long as you like. The list of changes in your actions will result in
your feelings doing the same. Study
on the Song of Solomon, as I have mentioned before. If this book about
love was so important to include in God's Word, it must be important
enough for us to study.
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