The enemy has a plan for your marriage. And so if you don't make a plan with the Lord, the enemy will.

Well, that's what we talked about, too, that Satan didn't even show up until Adam and Eve were married.

Yep.

Spiritual warfare doesn't even begin until after the wedding and then comes the war.

Well, howdy y'all? Pastor Mark here, welcoming you back to the Real Marriage Podcast.

If you don't know,

we got a brand new book, my wife, Grace and I. It's called Real Romance, and it's on sex in the

Song of Songs. And, hey, if you're not having sex, we want to help. If you're having sex,

we want you to have more and better sex. And if you're doing really great, congratulations.

You're officially a unicorn. The book is now available and you can find all the details at

real romancebook.com. And on today's episode, we'll be delving into the Song of Songs, the

Real Romance Marriage Book, and try to help you spice up your love life, my friend.

I talked about in a previous episode in Genesis, initially there was one man and one woman,

and so God didn't give us a standard of beauty. He gave us a spouse. It's not like Adam could

compare Eve to all the other women, or Eve can compare Adam to all of the other men.

And so you don't have a standard of beauty.

You have a spouse and your spouse is your standard of beauty.

That's where he says in Job 31-1, I made a covenant with my eyes not to look upon someone

lustfully.

In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul says that a leader needs to be a one woman man. All of that is to say, if your spouse is your standard of beauty, you can say there is no flaw in

you because you're not comparing them to someone else.

And what this means is as you get older, your standard of beauty shifts to whatever age your

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