Comments on: Godly Husband: How is Your Thought Life? http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/ Standing in the Gap in a Society that's Warring with God. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:17:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MInTheGap http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/comment-page-1/#comment-62038 MInTheGap Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:01:34 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/#comment-62038 Somewhere along the line-- and it's strongly linked to what you're saying, Rebecca-- is the fact that people can get numb to seeing things. That is what I see is the greatest danger to a society that is that permissive in what they bombard people with. Some would say that it shows that we're just prudes-- since we can use familiarity to erase objections. I see it as taking away special things that help build relationships. There are certain things that are completely yours-- things that you have to give that no one else has. The more you give out to the person you date or the random person on the web, the less you have to give. Same thing with what we see. The more we've seen, as men, the less ouor wife may appeal to us, or the less "new" it is. It's something that bigger than we think-- and makes things a lot more dangerous than they appear. Somewhere along the line– and it’s strongly linked to what you’re saying, Rebecca– is the fact that people can get numb to seeing things. That is what I see is the greatest danger to a society that is that permissive in what they bombard people with.

Some would say that it shows that we’re just prudes– since we can use familiarity to erase objections. I see it as taking away special things that help build relationships. There are certain things that are completely yours– things that you have to give that no one else has. The more you give out to the person you date or the random person on the web, the less you have to give.

Same thing with what we see. The more we’ve seen, as men, the less ouor wife may appeal to us, or the less “new” it is. It’s something that bigger than we think– and makes things a lot more dangerous than they appear.

]]> By: Deborah http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/comment-page-1/#comment-62035 Deborah Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:51:05 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/#comment-62035 My husband has always been extremely careful about this. He will not watch a movie, look at a magazine, etc. if there is anything even hinting at being improper. I've always been very thankful for that. Especially since he drove over the road for 8 years, home once or twice a month and he was in the military, gone for 2,3 or 4 months at a time. I never had any doubts about him!! :biggrin: My husband has always been extremely careful about this. He will not watch a movie, look at a magazine, etc. if there is anything even hinting at being improper. I’ve always been very thankful for that. Especially since he drove over the road for 8 years, home once or twice a month and he was in the military, gone for 2,3 or 4 months at a time. I never had any doubts about him!! :biggrin:

]]> By: Rebecca http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/comment-page-1/#comment-62029 Rebecca Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:10:40 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/#comment-62029 Well, MIn, you make a good point, which I have blogged about before. If he were to avoid everywhere where the women dressed inappropriately, he wouldn't even go to church. And it is the larger than life posters he objects to, not any clothing itself. Well, MIn, you make a good point, which I have blogged about before. If he were to avoid everywhere where the women dressed inappropriately, he wouldn’t even go to church.

And it is the larger than life posters he objects to, not any clothing itself.

]]> By: MInTheGap http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/comment-page-1/#comment-61998 MInTheGap Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:01:51 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/#comment-61998 Hard to say, Rebecca. I think that sometimes the way people are dressed at the mall is worse than some of the stores. I don't know that lingerie itself is the problem, it's the fact that they need to put it on women on posters that are larger than life is. It is somewhat innocent to avoid lingerie altogether, it's another thing to want to consider seeing a woman in it as something special an unique to you-- the wife. Hard to say, Rebecca. I think that sometimes the way people are dressed at the mall is worse than some of the stores. I don’t know that lingerie itself is the problem, it’s the fact that they need to put it on women on posters that are larger than life is. It is somewhat innocent to avoid lingerie altogether, it’s another thing to want to consider seeing a woman in it as something special an unique to you– the wife.

]]> By: Mary http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/comment-page-1/#comment-61647 Mary Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:50:21 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/#comment-61647 I love that #2, on keeping your wife at the center of your life. That is great advice for women too. I remember pre-kids, when I vowed to never let dh slip into the outer realm of importance b/c I was so busy with children. Yet, time and again he has. :sad: Rebecca, we rarely get to the mall, but my dh is highly uncomfortable within 3 feet of the lingerie section in Wal Mart! I just thought it was his extremely modest nature...now you've got me wondering if it might be something more! I love that #2, on keeping your wife at the center of your life. That is great advice for women too. I remember pre-kids, when I vowed to never let dh slip into the outer realm of importance b/c I was so busy with children. Yet, time and again he has. :sad:

Rebecca, we rarely get to the mall, but my dh is highly uncomfortable within 3 feet of the lingerie section in Wal Mart! I just thought it was his extremely modest nature…now you’ve got me wondering if it might be something more!

]]> By: Rebecca http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/comment-page-1/#comment-61571 Rebecca Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:36:01 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/03/08/godly-husband-how-is-your-thought-life/#comment-61571 Another way wives can be helpful is not to expect our husbands to go to the mall with us. Or is mine the only one who is troubled by the images presented there? Another way wives can be helpful is not to expect our husbands to go to the mall with us. Or is mine the only one who is troubled by the images presented there?

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