Jared Wilson offers some suggestions regarding his own rhetorical question about what are “some practical ways that husbands and wives can submit to each other and sacrifice for each other in pursuit of grace-driven sex?”
Ladies and gentlemen, you’ll have to head over to Wilson’s blog to read everything he offers, but here is one of the points which he directs at husbands:
Make your wife your standard of beauty. – There is almost nothing more shaming to a wife than to feel as though her husband’s vision is captivated by someone else, even if it’s just a pretty stranger who happens to pass by. Over time, as couples become more and more familiar with each other, and bodies change, etc., a wife’s fear of losing her husband’s eye typically grows. Husbands, make it your firm commitment — a covenant with your eyes — that you will not measure your wife against anybody else, real or imaginary. If measurement takes place, they must measure against her, and they must all fall short. In Proverbs 5:18-19, the father warns his son against adultery and says:
Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated always in her love.The Hebrew word there that is rendered “breasts,” by the way, is of course best translated as breasts. This is not metaphorical, and it’s not temporary. May the breasts of your young wife satisfy you at all times, which means even when neither of you is young any more. Is your wife skinny? You like skinny. Is she not? Then you like “not.” Maybe her body changed. Well, then, you changed too. And this can’t be something you just say; it must be something you actually feel.
This is completely and utterly true.
Like.
Does he dip his hat to Driscoll here? Or should it be the other way around?
Gary Thomas and Paul Tripp actually.
Driscoll probably would have worked a date at Nascar or Ultimate Fighting into his advice.
dip. tip. you get the picture.