Damascus Road Church

As I drove home from Sunday service, Matt and I had a conversation centered around sex.  Now, before you think we spent our 15 minutes together talking about how to "get it on," know that we were talking about sex and how our approach to it might reflect His relationship with us.  Clearly, if sex is more than just a physical exchange of body fluids--which it is--then there must be something we can learn about God through this wonderfully beautiful thing He created and we broke. 

Honestly, Matt would probably explain this better but I'll give it a shot considering it will be another 6 weeks before he writes anything about it.  In the last few words of my sermon today, I said that God wants more that just our salvation.  God uses the sexual relationship to describe his relationship with us.  When we don't love him, we become harlots, having sex with a myriad of other Gods.  God wants us exclusively and he wants us in ALL the three ways that he defines love as.  In a sense, God wants more than just sex with us.  I wonder if I want more than just sex with him.  True sexual intimacy, the way God intended it, can only occur when we've been patient and disciplined enough to develop the relationship BEFORE anything sexual occurs.  When sex is divorced from relationship, then chaos reigns.  Sex becomes physical.  People become objects.  And we grow more and more detached from the intimacy that we're wired to have. 

Maybe the same thing happens with God.  Are we only interested in God for the sex?  Do we ever desire or work toward that relationship with Him?  Do we seek this relationship for the sole purpose of just knowing him more? OR are we cultivating a relationship so that we get what we really want, peace, love, ease of suffering, etc. All of that is just sex.  What about companionship?  What about having something to talk with?  To rejoice with?  To cry with?  To be vulnerable with?  Isn't that what God wants?  If Jesus is the perfect husband and I am the bride one would think that He wants to do exactly what he calls me to do as a husband--seek after a relationship, be a true companion, commit even when she/I are not committed, and then the beauty and intimacy of sex becomes something beautiful--a sharing of ourselves completely, emotionally, physically, spiritually.  Perhaps that is why God says "Love me with all of your heart, and soul, and strenght. "