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Sex With GodPARENTAL NOTE: I had originally titled this piece “Wishes do come true…” but I changed it to “Sex With God” for your sake. I talk frankly about sexual matters, not pornographically, but in how it reveals God’s desire for us. I figured that the word “sex” alone would be enough to make parents read this first and decide whether or not you want your children to read further. Nothing you will read is perverse or ungodly, but it is still a subject you may wish to withhold from your children for the time being. I respect that and wanted to blatantly highlight it in this essay for your sakes rather than make it sound like a Disney fairy tale and then spring sex on you mid-essay.I was shopping with my son the other day when I passed a teenage girl with the following written on her shirt. “Wishes do come true… if you’re hot.” I snickered to myself because it instantly occurred to me that that statement was absolutely true, just not in the way that the wearer was most likely considering. Wishes really do come true if you’re hot. The cool thing about it is God thinks you’re hot whether you’re a supermodel, or whether you’re a one armed leper with the I.Q. of a turnip. Now I know what you’re thinking. “Aww, that’s a sweet sentiment meant to make me feel better about my pathetic life. It’s hollow, but a sweet attempt.” But let’s back up for a second and analyze what I really mean. In this world, men will do just about anything in order for a truly gorgeous woman to show interest in him. It’s true. Ladies, you do something to us guys that I quite frankly cannot in any way explain. I can only tell you that it exists. It doesn’t work the same way in reverse which makes it nearly impossible for you ladies to empathize with how you make us feel. Dr. Ed M. & Sharon Smith say it well in their audio cassette series, “The Basic Ingredients for a Happy Marriage.” If a wife jumps naked out of the shower and expresses a sexual desire to her husband, whether he says yes or no, there is going to be an involuntary physiological reaction. The mere sight of his wife in this state is all it takes to create this desire. But reverse the situation and all the husband is going to receive is the rebuke, “Oh for crying out loud, put some clothes on.” It’s a simple fact. Men are predominantly aroused by sight, while women are predominantly aroused by emotional and physical contact. There’s nothing evil or wrong about this. Yes, it can be abused just like money, power or anything else in this world at our disposal. It can be turned into a selfish lust that only seeks to gain personal satisfaction with utter disregard for the considerations of anyone else. But the fact that it can be distorted does not mean that it’s wrong. It is, in fact, the way God created us to be. But why? Why did God make us this way? Why does the mere sight of a beautiful woman affect us men so powerfully and why do you women require a more hands on approach to arousal? Because, as the bible says, God is revealed in His creation. He wants us to more easily understand Him by letting us experience an analogy of Him on a daily basis. This is why He gave us the feasts in the Old Testament. This is why He established marriage the way He did. It’s why we have seed time and harvest time. It goes back to what I discussed in “The Simple Complicated Truth”. God is the same yesterday, today and forever, and He works the same way spiritually, physically and mentally. What He does and who He is in the spirit, He has revealed in the flesh in order that we might better grasp it. This is why when the Pharisees griped at Jesus to explain the spiritual side of things Jesus said that they didn’t understand the physical things God had given. How could they be expected to understand the spiritual side? Ok, ok, ok. Men look at women and go, “WOW! I WANT IT! I’LL DO ANYTHING TO GET THEM TO NOTICE ME!” while women look at men and go, “Prove yourself to me. Show me who you are. Show me you can be intimate and sensitive. Show me that you care enough about me to do what’s best for me.” I got that. Men and women are different. So what? I mean, how does this relate to God? Because God wants to be our lover. We need to recognize that He has revealed Himself in the way He created men and women to relate to each other. In the courtship of us, He plays the part of the man and humanity plays the part of the woman. There’s something I want you to see here, especially if you have my temperament which tends to make me believe that I’m not worth very much to anybody. God doesn’t just sit on a cloud far away and say, “Aww, look at my little pets/lumps of clay/cosmic science experiments.” Or whatever other thing you’ve imagined that God says about us. God looks at you and says, “WOW! I WANT IT! I’LL DO ANYTHING TO GET HIM/HER TO NOTICE ME!” God looks at you the same way a man looks at a beautiful woman. He doesn't require us to prove ourselves. He simply looks at us and wants us. Are you his child? His servant? His soldier? His heir? His friend? Yes to all of these. But you’re also His deepest “romantic” desire. You don’t think so? Read Song of Solomon. You’ve got to understand that God is attracted to you. YOU are His most priceless possession. YOU are His heart’s desire. YOU are the reason He gave His life on the cross so that YOU could live with Him forever. Yes, it’s because you’re His child, friend, etc… These do not contradict each other. They all exist concurrently. But you need to grasp that He desires an intimate, lover’s relationship with you as well. We are the bride of Christ as well as His body. This marriage will one day be consummated in Heaven, but God desires an intimacy right here on Earth that most of us shun. The cool thing about it is that God is wooing us, not the other way around. When we screw up and reject God, God says, “I want you back.” We’re the ones who are telling God, “Prove yourself to me. I’m not sure I want to be with you.” not the other way around. We’re the ones who require an understanding of God’s desire for us, as well as God’s ability to provide for us, before we consider entering into this relationship. We’re the ones who test Him against other lovers to see if He really is the one for us. And yet, He still wants us. He still has that yearning, that desire, that love that wants to draw us near. Some people have criticized the bible for calling Joseph and Mary husband and wife even though they had not yet been through the wedding ceremony. (Joseph and Mary are not the only ones in the bible that this happens to. They’re simply the most well known.) But this description of marital relationship was not incorrect. The moment they agreed to be married, they were in God’s eyes. God takes commitment seriously. The Old Testament Hebrews recognized this and spoke of it that way. The fact is that if Mary had been unfaithful to Joseph (or vice versa) during this period, it would have been seen as just as much of an adulterous act as if she had been unfaithful to him after they had been married for ten years. When you commit your life to Christ, God sees you as married to Him, even though the marriage ceremony described in the bible has not yet taken place. You are His bride, and He will jealously guard and protect you as His own. This is important to understand because God has given you everything, from his very life to the tiniest detail of day to day existence. God said the flowers and the birds are taken care of. How much more do you mean to Him. Do you see now how much more you mean to Him? I chaperoned a group of kids from my church one year to an “Acquire the Fire” event in Des Moines, Iowa. A lady (I’m sorry, but I don’t remember her name) got up to speak for an hour on sex and sexual promiscuousness. One of the first things she said on stage was, “I’m about to tell you something your parents don’t want you to know. SEX IS AWESOME!” And she was right. God gave us sex for a reason. He wants to give us an indicator of how mind-blowingly amazing a relationship with Him can be like. “Wait a second.” You’re saying now. “Are you telling me that we can have sex with God?” That’s exactly what I’m telling you. In fact, I said it in the previous paragraph. This marriage WILL be consummated. That’s not a disgusting, vile, repulsive thought. If it is, you’ve let Satan’s deception and perversion of what sex should be guide your thoughts about what it really is. The “sex lady”, as she called herself, went on to discuss how sex taken out of God’s design leads to serious problems, but the point always remained that SEX IS AWESOME! It was designed by God to be that way. He wants us. He wants us intimately. He wants us sexually, and when I say sexually I mean that what we know of sex is nothing compared to what it’s going to be spiritually with him. You are God’s desire. YES, YOU READING THIS RIGHT NOW! Do you think that there’s no way anybody could ever love or desire you? GOD IS WOOING YOU? Do you, like me, tend to automatically think you’ve got too many problems for people to ignore? GOD HAS CALLED YOU BEAUTIFUL! Have you ever considered ending your life because nobody will ever see your worth? GOD DESIRES YOU MOST OF ALL! “Why are you yelling?” BECAUSE IT’S AWESOME! I am the pen. Back to the top | |||||||