Nudity, Foreplay, Sex: Only in the Marriage Bed they make Love.

In the Beginning, God made two people completely nude and told them to go ‘be fruitful and multiply.’  We are told that everything God made was good, He blessed them, and added the comment for emphasis ‘they were naked and they were not ashamed.’  From Scripture texts like this, one can only conclude that God made sex a good thing and intended it to foster love between two people.  This is why foreplay and sex are often referred to as making love.  
 The myriad of failed relationships in our society has somehow left people with the impression that marriage is somehow overrated and that infidelity is somehow a necessary evil to avoid the pitfalls of being stuck with a dud and a tepid relationship.  By doing this, they rob themselves of the critical element needed in this soup for creating the very magical experience they hope for.  That critical element is Godly commitment and only marriage really brings it to the table. Think about this for a moment.   Who can really be satisfied without first having a partner committed to fulfilling those needs?  Who can really experience love apart from having real devotion and faithfulness?  How can any relationship work and improve with age without two people’s hearts first really being in it?  Without commitment, all attempts prove dead on arrival.   If you are in an uncommitted relationship (even a so called marriage on paper), you can kiss any dream of personal fulfillment goodbye.    Your relationships are really what you make of them.  If you put your heart into them, you will find they will blossom.  If your heart wanders from them, they will die for lack of nourishment.  As a Husband, I have found that the real quality of my marriage was really up to me.  If it lacked the luster I had hoped for, it was more often than not my own personal sin and not my partner that stood in the way.  Sadly, too many people today decide to get rid of their partner and keep their sin; these choices are what forever bar them from any fulfillment.   Our spouses are really God’s gift to us and it’s always amazing to see what He has in store, if we only take the time to unpack them properly.  Intimacy never really occurs between two people without first establishing trust and no one will ever trust you without first having your commitment.  All good lovers know their relationships never started as rose gardens, they understand you have to be willing to do some sowing and watering to cultivate them.   Again, this is why foreplay and sex are often referred to as love making.  They are really a means to an end and that end is to foster love.  When these activities are combined with Godly commitment, they can foster a love that will burn hot for a lifetime.  Now that you know how to create this magic, resolve yourself only to make love in the manner God really intended- within the marriage bed alone.

 
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