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Exhilarated with Your Love
Dearest Lover:
After getting your 'Sweetest Day' note I was thinking about you constantly throughout the day and enjoying so many fond memories of US. I love the feel of your soft skin and to feel you breathe next to me....As I thought more about you I tried to find a way to describe my feelings that I don't often share with you. I know I should be more conversant with you but it takes me time to get the right words at the right time and then hope you receive it well. I guess I was challenged to share and hope it opens up a channel of communication for us. These comments reflect my exact feelings!
Proverbs 5:18-19 says...Rejoice in the wife of your youth . . .Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; be exhilarated always with her love.
The original Hebrew is so strongly worded that in grasping for suitable words, a renowned Bible scholar decided that even the expression "love-ecstasy" was not intense enough. It could be further noted that the the passage could have included let her breasts give you rapture at all times, let her love ever [or always] ravish you.
"Be exhilarated always with her love"
The word translated here "exhilarated" usually means either to be intoxicated, or to go astray. The link between these diverse meanings is that normal behavior has been over-ridden. Be it alcohol, passion, enticement, or foolishness, something has so overwhelmed a person that cautious, controlled thinking has gone out the window. This passage is saying, within the sanctity of marriage deliberately intensify your passions until you can hardly think straight; regularly so inflame your feelings for your partner that you lose control. A husband is instructed to bring himself to the point where he is driven by desire for his wife; to so incite his passions that he is continually mesmerized by his wife's sensual charms. I have chosen not to use some foreign substance to 'get high' I have decided to take the gift from God...YOU...and 'be high' on loving you.
You may not understand this because you indicate to me the person you see is not as attractive as you would like but please remember God has programmed me to be absolutely turned on to you. I am planning to always be turned on by you. You don't know the enjoyment I have in seeing you and knowing that the things we share are just for us. That is exhilarating. God did not say to 'Cool it' as some might have expected. Instead, He urges me as a married man to make a continual effort to get intoxicated on you. This passage goes way beyond saying don't commit adultery. It virtually tells me, Go overboard; get as high as you possibly can, as often as you can. Continually stir up your passions so that you find your wife's delights overwhelmingly seductive. It's saying don't merely let nature take its course; get so focused on her, so enamored by her that she blows the circuits of your brain. I know that may be extreme but I think if I am that way toward you I will avoid the unthinkable and fall astray.
Your Always Faithful, Forever Loving, and Exhilarated Husband
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