The Bullet of Marriage: Pursuing More
My own personal feeling is that my marriage has to be toward the top 10% of those that are successful, yet, I have a continual earnestness to excel even more. My own counseling experience and the testimony of scores of colleagues betrays the bitter truth that most marriages are characterized by the tragedy of “satisfied boredom!”
Our insane, blind, misguided and flesh-oriented culture shouts continually that physical ecstasy alone is to be pursued as love’s highest goal. This is the great lie perpetrated about love and marriage. What every husband and wife hungers for most is soul and spirit ecstasy. This unbelievable adventure can only ultimately be experienced when a husband and wife are one with another and one with God. That and that alone is the climax of marriage as God intended it to be.
Jesus Christ died and rose from the dead to give every marriage on earth his resurrection power. Oh, that husbands and wives would have the courage to return to the freshness of their initial love, to feed it with the Truth of God’s Word, to be honest about one another’s needs and to yield to the power of the Holy Spirit.
That hardest mountain a man is ever called on to climb is the one of triumphant intimacy with his wife. I hope you haven’t given up the climb … I haven’t, and although I’m not at the top, the view already is spiritually intoxicating!
A marriage can be the closest thing to heaven or hell on earth. I pray for each of my dear readers now strength for the climb. God’s plan is for the husband to be the primary initiator of a deeper relationship. Most men who are faithful to do this find their wives response exceeds their highest hopes.
Indescribably exhilarating of joy, purpose and fulfillment is the prize for those who keep climbing for the top of the mountain!
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