Sexpectations
It is February. Love is in the air and at ENCM we are not shying away form the issues. We like to take this time of year and discuss how to have quality, functional relationships with the opposite sex.
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to minister on the topic of relational baggage and how to overcome it. The scripture that rings in my ears on the subject is in 1 Corinthians 6:
For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
There is a reason people walk around with so much baggage after having sexual relationships before marriage. Spiritually, as scripture teaches, people become are united during sex and when the relationship ends it is literally like ripping your heart out. And when that happens, we walk around until we find another unfortunate soul with our heart still bleeding and then bleed all over them.
This goes on and on until we believe its normal and let our heart become callous, and perhaps totally jaded, or, by the grace of God, we discover the way to have functional relationships the way we were created to.
But first, before we can even thinking of having a great relationship, so many of us need to deal with our issues and receive healing from the wounds of our past. Of course, the only place to find that healing is in Christ alone. And the only way you can have a relationship with Him is through repentance.
Malachi 4:2
But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.
Righteousness (right standing with God) lays the foundation for the healing of God. Let us be a people who hold up the standard of Truth given to us in the Word of God, but also compassionately point others to Jesus as he is the only one who can restore the broken hearted and bring the healing they need.
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