Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
The Sacramento Bee reports what the scientists at our California universities trumpet as a great discovery: “Happily married women recover faster from workday woes.”
Well, anyone who believes the Bible could have told them that long ago.
A loving Creator made woman to be loved in a forever fidelity, which the Bible says is marriage. Such love is a precious gift which we receive from Jesus; and gifts are to be appreciated and thanks to be said for them.
For example, our “daily bread,” our literal food, is to be appreciated with thanksgiving; never should we wolf it down without humbly thanking the Lord for it. And love of man and woman is to be celebrated in holy marriage as a gift from Himself to us. Sex is not to be wolfed down as animals do.
Love in marriage is a faint reflection of the love in the “marriage of the Lamb” when Heaven rejoices in Hallelujah choruses (Rev. 19:1-8). Christ marries one “wife,” not multiple ones; and His conjugal love singles “her” out as His one choice in love. In God’s delightful plan that our University professors have apparently just discovered, He plans for woman to be treasured in lifelong love by one man who sees in her his one dream of life companionship.
Of course “she manages stress well;” she comes home at day’s end to what is a relationship more solid than Gibraltar, for it is pure and holy love. A fornication-relationship is not our Creator/Savior’s plan; far too often the “love” is only temporary; it’s not dedicated to the Lord.
Purity in sexual relationship is built solidly on the truth that our physical organisms, our bodies, do not rightfully belong to us: “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? ... Flee sexual immorality” (1 Cor. 6:15, 18). The reason why the apostle says this is because the Son of God purchased us with His eternal life that He gave up for us; His life is holy; therefore we have been bought with a holy, immeasurable price.
Temptations to indulge sex outside of holy marriage are bewildering and compulsive; young people are afraid of marriage because they are afraid of true love. But fornication is destructive of it. “Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s” (vss. 19, 20).
Does God forgive? Yes, but He saves one in the process.
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