Plumbed To The Depths Series

Implications

So back to my question, back to your sexuality. Is your sexuality incidental to you? Is your gender mere coincidence? Is it a genetic accident that you are male or female? Is your plumbing merely biological, or when God made your sex organs, did he literally plumb the depths of you, going all the way down to your spirit? Does your maleness or femaleness reflect something spiritually real about you? Yes, absolutely I believe it does. God made every part of you to be a channel to another world. Good sex, good music, good food, good surroundings, good friends – so much of what is good in this world can be an avenue for experiencing the mystery of God, and I believe it is meant to be. I believe that in sex we’re supposed to get a small glimpse of the world we are made for, to hear, as Philip Yancey says, rumors of another world.

Kind of makes you think differently about sex, doesn’t it? Kind of makes you think differently about adultery and faithfulness doesn’t it? If God plumbed the depths of you, if your sexual capacities (and I don’t mean just genitals, folks, I mean brain, skin, smells, everything that lends sexual power to you as a human being and enables you to experience human sexuality) were created by God to be a direct line to your spirit and soul, and if God designed male and female with potential to become “one flesh,” and if God is faithful to us and wants to make us like Him, and if in becoming like Him we are joined to Him, connected to Him as Jesus talked about in John chapter 15, then God gifts us with sex and everything involved in it and then asks us to do with it precisely what He has asked us to do with everything else – use it in a way that draws us toward Him and not in a way that draws us away. And how do we use sex in a way that draws us toward God and not away? By using it in a context of total faithfulness, of complete commitment to one other person, of devotion that not only takes the hot sex but accepts the morning breath a few hours later, that not only takes the beauty and romance and hormones, but also accepts the mundane-ness and boredom and routine, because God loves us always, at all times, and in all places. God does not place limits on His love for us.

Unfaithfulness, infidelity, will naturally draw us away from God, why? Because God IS faithful. 1st Cor. and other places tell us that God IS faithful, therefore unfaithfulness draws us away from Him. If God is faithful, we can’t get closer to Him by being faithless. That would be like, if God was left, thinking we could get closer to Him by going right. Since God IS love, lack of love draws us away from Him. God IS peace, therefore anxiety draws us away from Him. God IS joy, therefore ungratitude draws us away from Him. God is forgiveness, therefore bitterness and resentment draw us away from Him. Anything we do or allow in our lives that does not encompass what God IS draws us away from God, puts a chasm between God and us. You will not get to know a faithful God better when you are living an unfaithful life. Can’t happen.