Fishing Report: #20 Parachute Ants Black in color seems to be the ticket last week but only with the little guys, no bruisers this week. Deer Season starts this week and I almost got one with the Prairie Schooner (my truck, it is really long and not very fast).
I have been putting together a study for couples to start in January and I am filtering through what it truly means to love your spouse. While watching a episode of Life last night the main character has a romantic meeting with his ex-wife (they divorced while he was in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, I know very weak plot but it is TV) and it prompted a conversation with my wife that I think is important to share and for you to discuss with your spouse. I believe as does my wife that once you have been married or better yet have engaged in the act of marriage you are linked to that person forever, good, bad but never indifferent. When you share the most intimate of acts with someone you are not only sharing yourself with them but you are making a permanent connection for the rest of your life. In chapter 3 verse 5 “Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires” so why do we bind ourselves to others and awaken love before it is time? I don’t know other than to say that our society has said it is “ok”. In the Song of Salomon in Chapter 2 verse 16 “My lover is mine and I am his”; that shows possession and it does not say “My lover is mine and I am his and another’s.” Do you have possession of your spouse’s heart and do they have possession of yours? .Have you left and forsaken all others, you know do you still “think” about old so and so, do you look longingly at a magazine cover or that person that sits down the hall at the office, or the person at church that treats you so sweetly? If you haven’t you forsaken all others and your spouse need to pray to break the connection completely and do it openly and honestly. Be honest with one another and love each other during this process. No resentment here, we don’t have time life is too short and we have been losing ground by not taking care of this earlier. Later in this book it states that they seek each other out. Have you done this lately, have you sought out your spouse. Have you brought home flowers or made a special meal, better yet men have you jumped in and cleaned the toilet or ladies have you surprised your man with a little “romance”? If you haven’t you ought too. Did you not promise to love this person? That doesn’t mean that you just do life together it means that you GET to do life together so “DO IT” enjoy your life together join each other in the chores and in the fun with the family and with each other. Once you start doing life together your “Love will be awakened” and that is the goal. All of this is a picture of what our walk with Christ is to be. It is to be that deep intimate relationship that you have with your spouse but more it is that feeling that you need (crave, desire) them, your heart aches to see and feel them, to smell and touch them. Have you ever been away from your spouse and smelled your wife’s perfume or your husband’s cologne, what a rush of emotion and longing. That is how it should be for our spouse but even more that is how it should be for Christ. So love your spouse as if they were Christ and love Christ because He is the Lover of your soul.
I have been putting together a study for couples to start in January and I am filtering through what it truly means to love your spouse. While watching a episode of Life last night the main character has a romantic meeting with his ex-wife (they divorced while he was in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, I know very weak plot but it is TV) and it prompted a conversation with my wife that I think is important to share and for you to discuss with your spouse. I believe as does my wife that once you have been married or better yet have engaged in the act of marriage you are linked to that person forever, good, bad but never indifferent. When you share the most intimate of acts with someone you are not only sharing yourself with them but you are making a permanent connection for the rest of your life. In chapter 3 verse 5 “Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires” so why do we bind ourselves to others and awaken love before it is time? I don’t know other than to say that our society has said it is “ok”. In the Song of Salomon in Chapter 2 verse 16 “My lover is mine and I am his”; that shows possession and it does not say “My lover is mine and I am his and another’s.” Do you have possession of your spouse’s heart and do they have possession of yours? .Have you left and forsaken all others, you know do you still “think” about old so and so, do you look longingly at a magazine cover or that person that sits down the hall at the office, or the person at church that treats you so sweetly? If you haven’t you forsaken all others and your spouse need to pray to break the connection completely and do it openly and honestly. Be honest with one another and love each other during this process. No resentment here, we don’t have time life is too short and we have been losing ground by not taking care of this earlier. Later in this book it states that they seek each other out. Have you done this lately, have you sought out your spouse. Have you brought home flowers or made a special meal, better yet men have you jumped in and cleaned the toilet or ladies have you surprised your man with a little “romance”? If you haven’t you ought too. Did you not promise to love this person? That doesn’t mean that you just do life together it means that you GET to do life together so “DO IT” enjoy your life together join each other in the chores and in the fun with the family and with each other. Once you start doing life together your “Love will be awakened” and that is the goal. All of this is a picture of what our walk with Christ is to be. It is to be that deep intimate relationship that you have with your spouse but more it is that feeling that you need (crave, desire) them, your heart aches to see and feel them, to smell and touch them. Have you ever been away from your spouse and smelled your wife’s perfume or your husband’s cologne, what a rush of emotion and longing. That is how it should be for our spouse but even more that is how it should be for Christ. So love your spouse as if they were Christ and love Christ because He is the Lover of your soul.
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