Searching for God in the Good of Sex

When we are pursuing sexual integrity, we all experience this mental combat between sexual sin and our desire for sexual integrity. 

It’s not just an experience we have in our thought life alone.

We feel it in our bodies when they become aroused by things we see, the thoughts we have, and by the longings we have.

One of the ways we try to combat and move away from our sexual orientations is by thinking about good things.

And so we take our sexually sinful thoughts, we try to train them out for pure thoughts, good thoughts, thoughts about beauty, thoughts about truth. But I think a lot of us when we do that, we forget that there are good, pure, true thoughts about sex.

And so we go from thinking sexual thoughts that are sinful to thinking about anything else besides sex.

We try to get our thoughts in other places. And that’s good, because sex is not everything in life. But there’s so much good about God’s design for sex, that can actually help us to grow in sexual integrity. And so as we think and allow our minds to be transformed by God’s good, true Holy design, beautiful design for sexuality, you can actually ramp up our journey towards sexual integrity.

But, what do we mean?

Like, what does the sexual relationship between husband and wife in a lifelong loving marriage convey about the image of God?

How does the wife convey God’s image? How does the husband convey God’s image? What can we find about his beauty, his goodness there?

Let’s answer these questions together today in this podcast.

Outline: 

The battle between sexual sin and desire for sexual integrity.There is so much good about god’s design for sex.How to define sexual integrity?Why did you choose for sex to be like this?A picture of god’s heart for us.Our bodies tell god’s story.The mystery of God’s heart conveyed through sex.

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