10 Second Hugs

 

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When was the last time you hugged someone… I mean really hugged them… more than just a quick squeeze or man hand slap hug bounce… but really felt their body heat… hopefully it was with your spouse… but thats where we are going today. 

 

1 Cor. 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.…

 

Glorify God… this passage is right in the middle of talking about sexual pleasure and purity in marriage. It is telling us how to honor or Glorify God in marriage through our physical appetites. How in a sense to be connected to just our spouse.

So lets kick off a 7 step plan on why you should hug your spouse longer than 10 seconds… you say Garth where is this going? Well we honor God when we honor our spouse… they are a gift from God and physical affection inside marriage is a gift from God and when we use it the right way we actually are worshiping God or honoring him.

 

So why should you hug your spouse more than 10 seconds…

Dopamine.

It is the pleasure drug. 

Chocolate, drugs, risky behavior… sex, and physical affection.

But why is this important? Well think about chocolate, drugs risky behavior etc… they are all highly addictive. So when you hug your spouse for more than 10 seconds you are flooding your system with a highly addictive drug/practice. you get used to hugging your spouse… why is this important… well the other 6 reasons will tell us why… but let me actually end with this.

When it comes to hugging many people tell me…well thats just not me, Im not very affectionate, I wasn’t raised that way… my spouse doesn’t like hugging - Those are all somewhat valid, they are all somewhat understandable… but none of them are good enough reasons to not practice physical affection. So just like anything else you need to do - but don’t want to do… do it anyway. It will be worth it. Trust me… and when you hear the other 6 you will know why.

GH TDA KSG