If you're marriage, your desire should be solely toward your spouse.
| posted 1/30/2009
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As you settle into your marriage relationship, many of the things that were so exciting about your spouse can begin to seem humdrum and, in fact, plain boring. That's when many couples (and particularly men, who are visually stimulated for sexual pleasure) are tempted to turn to other sources to add zip to their bedroom ventures. But God makes it clear that the language of love and sex is intended to be only between a husband and wife, not between a person and a pornographic magazine or Internet image. Think about it this way: If you use pornography in your lovemaking, you're introducing a third partner into your relationship. That brings comparison into your bedroom (What average woman or man can stack up to computer-enhanced images of perfect bodies?) and breaks the unity of the two of you in marriage.
Instead of turning to an outside, worldly source to increase your sexual pleasure, why not read the Song of Solomon together and create your own words of love for each other? Such godly images are guaranteed to boost your joy in sex—because you'll be using them with a clear conscience. (See also Galatians 5:19-23; 2 Timothy 2:22.)
Good Words to Remember:
My beloved spoke, and said to me: "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." Song of Solomon 2:10
Today's Challenge:
Are you tempted to turn to other sources to increase your sexual pleasure? If so, in what situations? What can you do to turn your desire back toward your spouse?
Copyright 2001 by the author or Christianity Today International/Christian Bible Studies.
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