Proverbs - Intoxicating Love

Proverbs 5:14-23

Help Your Husband Be Ravished With Your Love  

 I was almost in all evil in the midst

 of the congregation and assembly.

 Drink waters out of thine own cistern,

 and running waters out of thine own well.

 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad,

 and rivers of waters in the streets.

 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

 Let thy fountain be blessed:

and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe;

let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;

 and be thou ravished always with her love.

 And why wilt thou, my son,

be ravished with a strange woman,

and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD,

and he pondereth all his goings.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself,

and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Marriage is so special.  The Lord wants a man and woman

to experience a level of commitment that reflects His

commitment to us - His bride.  He wants marriages to be full

of refreshment, nourishment, safety and contentment.  We,

as women, can look at these verses and see that we need

to be available to our husbands at all times for his

satisfaction.  We, as wives, should be described as loving

and pleasant.  Have you made your husband the highest

human priority as far as helping him and seeking to satisfy

him?

Pray that your husband will always be ravished with your

love.  The word ‘ravished’ can be translated ‘intoxicated’.

Does your love fill your husband and cause him to be

anaesthetized against the cruel, destructive arrows of his

adversary?  Something that can intoxicate someone has

had time to ferment and change in chemical make up.  It

started out as fruit but with time was able to have power

over someone’s state of mind.  In your marriage, is the fruit

of the Holy Spirit remaining and with time your love is

influencing your husband in a way that helps him avoid the

traps of the enemy - especially those lustful traps he faces

on a daily basis?