Today's Word

'Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. . . . . ’   Matthew 6:9

Today's Reflection: Honor God with the Sexual Part of You
 
Someone once said that “Hallowed be Thy Name” means that I should start each day asking God’s help in living today in a way that my actions ‘make God look good to others’. That’s not a bad way to look at it (as long we define ‘good’ correctly).

How can I make God look good today? One huge way, is to honor God with the sexual part of me. John 3:16, 17 and Acts 3:21 together tells us that God project is to heal, restore, repair, resurrect all of creation including us. . . . re-merge heaven and earth, re-merge God and people like it was in Eden. And to restore the way that our bodies are created to merge. The first sex is recorded in Genesis 2:23-25.   It was a merger of body, soul, spirit, emotions, commitment, permanence, common future, common lives. A new creation happened. Two became one, not momentarily in the sex act, but one as in ontological oneness. They became together something new which was never to be separated. This means that any sex act that merges one body physically with another, even if only a brief “physical only” hook-up is playing with fire. To separate sex out from the rest of the total package actually can’t be done. The rest goes with it, either in the way it is supposed to (in marriage, the word we use for total package male female oneness) or in a way that “dis-integrates” you and your partner and misrepresents God.Why does it misrepresent God? Because the Bible is full of pictures of marriage as being the picture of everything that God is, and is about. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are permanently one, and fully self giving. Revelation 21:15 use marriage as the final picture of everything God is doing – the full final permanent merger of all things!

Prayer  

“Lord, may your name be hallowed today in the way that I speak, joke about or allude to sex. Please help me to keep my thoughts focused on my love for my spouse and off all the ways that society bombards me with the message that sex is just an act, rather than the physical outworking in marriage of the inner reality that you are making all things new and one.
Lord, help me to be an agent of yours who communicates to an increasingly broken world that “total package sex” (marriage) is a picture of the image of God. Amen”