I have heard it time and time again (myself included in times past) by many who are stuck in the rut by trying to synchronize two worldviews- wanting to do things Gods way and yet at the same time, living the worlds way...who have come up with a solutions to both the dilemmas-"If the two should burn with passion for each other, they should marry."This somehow has in our day come to mean that two people who are lusting after one another should marry. Many 'christian' books have not only adopted this viewpoint put are encouraging it, with all there sex-how-to books that came from secular thinking in the first place, they actually call lust in marriage good and healthy. How many marriages crumble apart because they misused God's Word. How many christian divorces are ended by using this misquoted verse as the foundation for their marriage in the first place?Passion and Lust are two opposite ideas. God is passionate about his people. He is not lustful after them. We've taken the world's view of what love and passion is and have tried to implement it into the bible for our own purposes. Lust is constantly being referred to as a sin in the bible and if we are walking in the light of the spirit, we need to see that lust belongs to the carnal and repent of it.It has no place in the life of a christian, whether married or not. If you are lusting after someone,(including your wife/husband), you need to ask forgiveness of the Lord and turn from it, because that does not come from a pure heart but out of selfish motives. Marriage is to be pure in all and a reflection of the picture of Christ and his bride. Lust has no place in it. Moreover... since when is it OK to lust after your spouse? Loving your wife and being truly biblicly passionate about her is something no woman(or man- depending on as the case may be)should be denied because of carnal desires. *Please note I do not say 'physical' desires, but there must be a distinction between what the spirit calls good and what the flesh calls good. Getting married to satisfy your carnal lusts was never the thought by Paul as a way to give into and condone sin. It is the distortion of what God calls marriage. When Paul was speaking about two people burning with passion for each other, he did so in the context of a period of history under Niro where it was safer and more practical to remain unmarried. However, knowing that there were many who were burning with godly biblical passion for each other( meaning he loved this woman with every ounce of strengh in him, who could not bear the thought of being without her, who had set his mind up that this was truly the woman for him, and longed for this woman with all of his soul), Paul gave permission to marry.. .that even though he was recommending that many abstain from marriage through the horrible time, he granted them permission to marry, and they would not be sinning by doing so. For these two who were biblicly burning with loving passion for each other, to abstain from marriage would be agony not done in good faith which would in itself be a sin.
Fathers, think of your daughter... your precious little girl whom you love with your whole heart, the apple of your eye, whom you've spent your whole life guarding her and keeping her, to hope that one day she will be the wife of one who loves her just as much as you have, for a beautiful marriage, where you you cry on her wedding day for her happiness... could you stand to give her away to a man who was so filled but with his own lust and (forgive me)'hornyness' that, unwilling to use self-discipline by the holy spirit, he would marry her for the sole purpose of gratifying his carnal desires? Or, could it be that you are that man? (Or woman) Lust (physical, emotional, psychological or lust in ANY form)ruins what is most beautiful, whether beautiful relationships, beautiful friendships or beautiful marriages. Lust is the opposite of beauty and all that is good. Please... do not mix what is PROFANE with what is HOLY. And above all else, Do Not Misquote the Bible to Support a Perverted view of what God calls a holy marriage. That is an abomination in the eyes of God.
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