Symptom
Husband: Is it wrong to lust after my wife? I am crazy about my wife. All I want is for my wife to be crazy about me like I am about her, but she isn’t, so I spend my life in frustration and guilt. I have talked to her about it, and it will get better for a few days and then back to the rut. I know she loves me, but I don’t think she cares.
God’s Picture:
She becomes one through security, being cherished and understood
He becomes one through Honor and physical intimacy
Lust is killing our love lives.
Feed my need to feel outside of God’s best.
Sex is a human thing not a spiritual thing.
These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. (2 Peter 2:17-19)
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.” (2 Peter 2:19)
Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)
Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (1 Corinthians 7:5)
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. (Ephesians 5:31-32)
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