The idle family should stand on a threefold cord having the man and woman tied together by God which cannot be easily broken. While the man is the head of the family, he is to lead in love and the wife that is the helper is to build the home through submission. The wife is the balancer and the actual radiance of the family. The children are part of the offshoots of the blessings of the Lord to the family. They are mighty arrows in the …show more content…
1. Conjugal Love
As noted earlier, Jacob played the role of the man, husband and father. Though he was first a man before he became a husband and father, we shall start by examining his role as a husband. Jacob in discharging his duties as a husband was active in providing conjugal love to the wives. There was no lost love between him and the wives. There should be love and affection between the husband and his wife. And one of the ways to demonstrate love in a marital relationship is sharing of life by the couples through sexual intercourse.
Sex is beautiful and a wonderful creation of God approved under marital boundaries. The husband and wife perform the function of procreating new life through the act of sex. They resemble God in the discharge of this duty. After God created Adam and Eve He mandated them to replicate this function. Thus man is God’s agent in creating new lives.
Intimate sex in a marriage setting is a healer that soothes frayed nerves. Sex could solve problems that multitude of words cannot provide. It is a unifier that binds the wife and the husband together. It is a part of life exchange between the married …show more content…
Anything that takes the couple away from their marital bed could degenerate to other problems which may be more difficult to resolve. No matter any situation, the couple should not be separated from sex except on mutual consent for prayer purposes as advised by the scriptures.
Whosoever that is joined to a harlot through sex becomes one body. It signifies oneness and marks the couple as an inseparable entity. Thus the husband becomes one body with the wife and should treat the wife with love, dignity and wisdom.
Sex is one of the areas of nakedness between the couples. There was openness between Adam and Eve and the Lord expects same openness to exist between the husband and his wife. And this openness in not limited to sex but cuts across finances and every other aspect of their lives.
Every husband is expected to fulfil his conjugal love for the wife. The Lord enjoins the husband to drink out of his cistern and be satisfied with the breast of his wife (Proverbs 5:15-19). Anything outside this order breaks the sanctity of the