"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."Exodus 20:17
Why are so many men discontented with their wifes? Perhaps one reason is they play the comparison game.
I think that we are the main target of the Enemy and his minions, and this is his favorite weapon to use on us.
We operate and are motivated by our five senses, and our sense of sight is one of the most powerful, and is therefore a great target of opportunity. This world has been given over to the Enemy, and it is apparent by the fall in moral attitude (homosexual relationships being excepted in lots of places are an example), TV and Movies, Music, abortion, etc... One of the greatest indicators of this are the lie that the world has come to believe about Mothers and their place in the family. Up until the last generation, motherhood was a celebrated expected joy in a woman’s life. Now it is looked upon as either unavoidable (one to be endured for a short time) or one to be avoided completely. The question is why?
The answer lies in the fact that we (men) have become so entrenched in the visual world that we have slowly allowed the sacred to become commonplace and not worthy of our best.That gentlemen is the main battle, that the Enemy has convinced us that our Wives deserve the leftovers from our daily lives. When I say leftovers, I am referring to the fact that we do not guard our eyes and mind from the traps and snares the Enemy throws at us. Instead we slowly but surely slip and slide down the hill of visual sin to the point that we believe it is ok to stare at woman in our daily lives, then we began to exercise our wants and desires on this woman. In addition, before you know it, you have running porno movie live and in color starring every woman you find attractive.Then we go home to our wives who deserve our best in everything and yet receive our leftovers.
My challenge to you is to save your mental exercises for your wife and see what a difference it makes. You will find that it is beyond anything your brain can imagine, because it is in Gods will.
3 comments:
interesting.
what about mens expectations for what their wife should and should not do in and out of the home? Do you think that is an issue in marriages as well?
I think if a man has a strong relationship with God. Loving him with all his heart soul mind and strength is intact he can't help but love his wife as Christ loves the church and then hence willing to sacrifice his hearts sinful desires for fleshly living.
Just a thought. : )
I love you.
uhhh...what? my gut says there are some things you are trying to say indirectly. hmmmm. i'm at a loss to comment fully at this point. more later maybe. then again, you've got all the tools to deal with things and you probably don't need my comments. right? you are loved.
Listen here smart ass!(Sam)
It is not a question of saying things indirectly; it was just a download of thoughts that accumulated in my brain after 2 days spent painting handrails.
I noted how accepted porn material is on this rig, especially the soft core style such as Maxim magazine. One of the rig managers was reading a copy in the drillers shack and there was a crowd of men around him oogling the pictures. In previous conversations he had told me that he does not approve of porn in any form. So I metioned to him that Maxim is porn, and he shrugged it off as acceptable.
And the tools I referred to were more in a marital aspect and the comment in no way absolves you from holding my feet to the fire when and where it is needed!
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