Eze 16:36-43 You uncovered your body in your sexual sins with them as your lovers and with all your hateful idols. You killed your children and offered their blood to your idols.
Sexual sins are not reality. I tend to believe each and every person wants some kind of “truth” or reality in their lives. When we look at what God has set up for marriage we see a loving God. He says, “Don’t have intimacy with anyone until you have a commitment.” That commitment is marriage. It protects human beings. When a human being goes into sin, his/her world is distorted – unreality. Did you know David became an animal activitist when he went into sin? Animals became more important than a human life. (Nathan the Prophet told David a story in order to reveal David’s sin.) When a nation is in sin sacrifice of children will be more important then truth. ”Rights” will be exalted above righteousness.
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Excellent post about God and sex HERE
You doing okay? Pray you were able to rest up from Camp This & That. Have a great 4th of July weekend! ~Blessings~
Hmm… interesting choice of words, “Intimacy”… In my experience there are a lot of forms of intimacy, and one can make a much stronger connection to someone with a single look in the eyes than a hundred nights of passion. Two people can have sex without even touching one another, in a sense.
So why is it that we choose this particular act to reserve for our one committed relationship?
For me, the reason is not that sex is terribly important and needs marriage to be worth anything, but rather the opposite. Sex can be VERY powerful, it can lose its joy and become an obsession (and it often does, in this day and age.) Limiting sex to marriage will keep me from ever holding sex as an idol, since it can be an act of worship with a person who I see as bound to me in the sight of God.
I’m protecting myself from myself; it’s not sex that is at fault.
Of course, this is not to say that I have a stronger sexual urge than any other young male, I’m just a little more accutely conscious of how much idolatry there is in my daily life, and of the way sex could become important in and of itself and not be a communication with God, but only an exaltation of my own body and ego.
But here is a question for all of the Christian abstainers who may be reading this: Is simple restraint enough? Or is complete abstinence necessary? Should you avoid expressing any feelings of intimate passion with your lover before you are married?
Personally, my girlfriend and I abstain from sex, but not from intimacy in any way. It’s kind of a running joke between us that we’ve “slept together” quite a few times; just not in the sense that most people would take the phrase.
Thanks for some good thoughts, Randy,
-j
Excellent thoughts Scalpel Saved
You raised an interesting point. How we view intimacy. Your question concerning how far caused me to think of the two marriages we just had in the church. One marriage was a middle aged couple. They decided to take the intimacy level to the max. The first time they held hands was in front of the church as they were saying, “I do”. The other couple was young and their level was about the same. Both couples were so extremely excited to announce their purity to anyone that would hear. I quess a person would have to ask himself/herself – how much am I going to open the present? Marriage needs as much help as possible. I applaud the two couples because they didn’t even look towards the closet where the present was hidden. They waited until the commitment was sealed.