The divine marriage relationship must be preserved, and its intimacy kept as a holy vessel and privilege. This communion is a holy and exclusive circle in which no one has the right to infiltrate. When the defenses of the intimacy of marriage are invaded, their strength is violated, and home is exposed to the enemy’s attacks.
The intimacy of the family must be respected. But it often happens that strange and malicious people try to enter the holy circle of the family intimacy, discovering secrets, searching information, and modifying scenes to feed their sick curiosity, and then speculate with them, and raise chaos in the family atmosphere. The Spirit of Prophecy warns: "Oh, how many lives are made bitter by the breaking down of the walls which inclose the privacies of every family, and which are calculated to preserve its purity and sanctity! A third person is taken into the confidence of the wife, and her private family matters are laid open before the special friend. This is the device of Satan to estrange the hearts of the husband and wife." The Adventist Home, p. 337
“When a woman relates her family troubles or complains of her husband to another man, she violates her marriage vows; she dishonors her husband and breaks down the wall erected to preserve the sanctity of the marriage relation; she throws wide open the door and invites Satan to enter with his insidious temptations. This is just as Satan would have it.” Ibid, p. 338.
The scriptures say that “through wisdom is an house builded”, and that “every wise woman buildeth her house.” Proverbs 24:3; 14:1. “The wife is to grace thefamily circle asa wife and companion to a wise husband...” Daughters of God, p. 181. Part of that "charm" is the intimacy that she must preserve, like a government state secrets. It was with reason that Solomon in his love poem says to the wife: “A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.” Song of Solomon 4:12
By Júlio Sandoya - Brasil
