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Proverbs chapter 5 verse 15

drink water from your own cistern flowing water from your own cistern. Flowing water from your own well. This is pretty powerful

imagery. When you think about the context of what the writer here in Proverbs is doing, he's warning

spouses against adultery, specifically here husbands against adultery.

And he is saying, drink water from your... husbands against adultery.

And he is saying, drink water from your own sister

and flowing water from your own well.

In other words, enjoy the good gift God has given you in your wife, in your spouse.

The chapter goes on to talk about, let your fountain be blessed,

rejoice in the wife of your youth.

And so when we think about marriage and the tendencies, the temptations there might be

for any spouse, a husband or a wife to begin to look to someone else

for that which God has designed to be experienced in your spouse whenever you or I are tempted in that way

just to shut that down and say no no no no a God has designed my wife or my husband to satisfy me in that way, to meet that particular

need. This is the avenue through which God blesses me through my husband or my wife in this way and

obviously the picture there in this warning against adultery is referring to like even sexual satisfaction pleasure and so so we are provoked to

pray then for each of our marriages if you are single to pray for those who are married around you

yes and then also to pray for contentment even in your own heart until God leads you to a husband or wife.

So God, make us, we pray, a content people.

Please guard us, guard me, guard all of us from looking to other cisterns to satisfy.

We know this even ultimately in our relationship with you, how you rebuked your people in Jeremiah for leaving you to worship

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