Proverbs 5:15–20: Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. As a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love. For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, and be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
Insight
The commitment of marriage is like the banks of the river that keep the river from becoming a swamp. God’s holy law confines the waters within the banks, and this produces power and depth. Extramarital and premarital affairs don’t satisfy because they’re shallow, and it doesn’t take much to stir up shallow water. A man and woman pledged to each other in marriage can experience the growing satisfaction that comes with love, commitment, depth, and purity. When a husband and wife are faithful to the Lord and to each other, neither of them will look for satisfaction anywhere else. If they love each other and seek to please each other and the Lord, their relationship will be one of deepening joy and satisfaction; they won’t look around for “the greener grass.”1 1
Application
Everything for fulfillment is within your marriage, if you take the time to fulfill His command of love and respect found in Ephesians 5:22-33. Read it now, and pray.
Motivation
Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate. Matthew 19:6
Marriage is where you discover the treasures of unconditional love. – TWEET IT
Prayer
Father, teach me how to find my fulfillment in loving You and obeying Your Word.
1. Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). Be Skillful (p. 50). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
