SEX AND MARRIAGE

This is one topic that I have been running away from addressing because it is something that is very private and sometimes embarrassing to discuss publicly.

Unfortunately, this is one subject that is very important to having a healthy marriage and one that cannot be taken for granted.

Concerning the issue of sex generally, there is so much misinformation and because these issues are not dealt with on the family table as it were, every child growing up ultimately finds out about sex from friends and peers. In the end many people come away with a wrong view of sex and its purpose.

I will like to remind you of the saying by Mills Munroe that if the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse becomes inevitable.

So what is the purpose of sex? Why did God put this desire in us? Why are we not hermaphrodites?

A good place to begin finding answers will be in the word of God itself.

"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed. Genesis 2: 24-25.

"And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord." Genesis 4:1

The first thing to say about sex, is that it was created by God. It was God who created the man and the woman and brought them together. So sex in its pristine form is God's idea.

The second thing to say is that it is God's intention that sex should be between a man (husband) and a woman (his wife).

The third thing I will like to state is that sex is supposed to be between two intimate people (male and female) in a marital set up. The idea that Adam KNEW his wife presupposes that there was intimacy as a prerequisite for sex. Therefore this clearly precludes casual sex or sex without any form of commitment.

More next time.

God bless you.

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