Proverb of the Day

Proverbs 5:15-20

15-16 Do you know the saying, "Drink from your own rain barrel,
draw water from your own spring-fed well"?
It's true. Otherwise, you may one day come home
and find your barrel empty and your well polluted.

17-20 Your spring water is for you and you only,
not to be passed around among strangers.
Bless your fresh-flowing fountain!
Enjoy the wife you married as a young man!
Lovely as an angel, beautiful as a rose—
don't ever quit taking delight in her body.
Never take her love for granted!
Why would you trade enduring intimacies for cheap thrills with a whore?
for dalliance with a promiscuous stranger?

This one is a bit relevant considering I'm getting married in less than six months! (YAY!)

I think the thing I love the most about this scripture is that it's God outlining the best way to enjoy something that He's made of us. There seems to be this mindset out there that believes that the Christian view of sex and relationships is constrictive and closed minded.

But think about it, think about how much hurt that people wouldn't have to go through if they drank from their own rain barrel and only from it. Physical and emotional hurt.

I choose to keep sex for marriage not for constrictive religious reasons, but because I don't want to cause hurt to my wife to be, want to keep sex special and realise that it just makes sense.