The (Non) X-(Rated) File
I’m thinking about sex.
You can recover from your shock now. Heave a sigh of relief or wipe that silly grin from your face because (thankfully) it’s not what you think.
Percolating in my mind lately is this talk on sexual purity I’m giving to the young people’s group of a Chinese church tomorrow. (I got invited by the virtue of my being a True Love Waits [a sexual abstinence campaign] trainor and a Sunday School teacher for college students in my church.) For the past several days I've been logging in hours reading reference materials, archived notes, internet articles. Also, clipping newspaper ads to prove that ours is a sexually charged society using the lure of the flesh to sell almost everything—from health food to cameras, to slippers even!
How can a fish swim against the current? And how can a person keep his way pure while living in a world that promotes instant sexual gratification? How can one overcome the carnal struggles to feed romantic fantasies or to entertain lustful thoughts? Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No. For how can a person not trust an All-powerful God for battles he cannot win on his own?
But make no mistake: I have learned that God is pro-sex. The idea was His; this masterpiece designed in His own drawing board. God's Word celebrates sexual love. For tell me, why else would Song of Songs make it to the Bible's table of contents? Or how could a sentence like "May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine, smooth and sweet, flowing gently over lips and teeth" be found in the same Book where we could read "I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy"?
When I said that I am thinking of sex, it’s not that there’s an X-rated movie playing in my mind. It means that I’m thinking, and thanking the All-Wise Creator who officiated the first ever wedding, of Adam and Eve, in a garden named Eden, and who spared nothing in ensuring that a husband and wife enjoy the most intimate relationship a man and a woman can have on earth.
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3 comments:
ey, this april 21, we invited boris and michelle to speak about sex to the gcf singles. :)
i hope the material won't be too similar with what we've heard countless times when we were still in youth sunday school. we all know God's standards, but i'm hoping for something that has shock value and discuss the issue head on.
the spiritual battle is fought and won by inches. before tackling pre-marital sex as sinful, i hope enough content would be focus on the battle on pornography and media-influence, etc.
hahaha! parang ako yung speaker!
- blindgeekpoet
Amen and amen. We need people who will challenge amd encourage us and especially our youth to think about sex through God's eyes. And to take it further, it's not just the sexual act, but also to celebrate the God-given gift/fact that some of us are MALE and the rest are FEMALE. May God's truth speak through you as you speak to God's youth.
Hi Homer, maybe you could be a speaker! :-)Perhaps you'd know best how to handle issues like pornography and media influence. It's shocking what we are up against this time. Preparing for this talk made me open some nasty can of worms (like reading the lyrics of some Britney and Eminem songs).
Hi Ben,
Amen to your amen. I just skimmed the surface of homosexuality but I hope what I said was enough to get the YP start thinking more seriously about how to take purity seriously. :-) Thanks for the interaction.
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