Probing Proverbs: ☛5:18-19 Let your wife be a
fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. She is a
loving deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always
be captivated by her love.☚ It should not amaze us how the enemy tries to pervert
everything that is from God. God made sex, yet and with regret, much of the attack on sex has
come from the “institutional” church. As if sex is sinful. It is not sex that
is sinful, it is the timing and with whom that makes it a problem.
God meant
sex to be very pleasurable! If it were for procreation only, a man and woman
could just touch fingertips and make the transfer; God would have no problem
designing us that way. He did not; He designed it to produce the greatest
amount of intimacy between husband and wife. From the oneness couples
experience, the pleasures their senses deliver, to the vulnerability they have
in their final embrace – all was created by our Lord as a celebration of God’s
design of love in marriage. Don’t allow the enemy to ruin something God
intended to be so wonderful!
I want to address the issue of sexual lust in the mind versus the act of sex. Both are sin, the Scripture is clear on that. However, let's not delude ourselves. God wants us to be pure physically and mentally, so I'm not saying that lusting is less problematic. Believe me, I know how dangerous lust can be, having been in bondage to pornography for far too many years. Yet I want to challenge all those reading this devotional. When a person lusts they hurt the Lord and themselves. However, when a person has any kind of sexual contact with another human being that is not their spouse, the repercussions go exponential. Not only have they hurt God and themselves but the person they engaged in a sexual act with, the future spouse of that person and perhaps family members and friends that could become involved in the situation. This does not even address the possibility of disease or pregnancy. Lusting does a lot of damage, so I'm not lessening its danger. But a picture or fantasy cannot spread sexual diseases or cause pregnancy. I think if we are honest we all know we have to struggle against the sexual lusts that each of us wrestle with, we need not make it more complicated by engaging in physical sin that will leave scars on countless people. Let's stay close to God seeking his help with our thoughts, but let us also offer our bodies to God and not the sin.
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