Read: Genesis 2:15-25
The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. Genesis 2:25
Dr. Paul Tournier (1898-1986). In this past, human sexuality was a forbidden topic. As a result, children often entered puberty “without a clue” about their sexuality. Many turned to the writings of Tournier for an understanding of the true meaning of persons in both their spiritual and physical dimensions.—Dean Ohlman (A Doctor’s Casebook in the Light of the Bible, Harper & Row, 1960)
The idea is gaining ground among the public that one must choose either Christian faith or marital happiness, on the grounds that they are incompatible! This is the opposite of the truth. But we must recognize that there is some excuse for [this belief], since even enlightened people often confuse & more or less conscious contempt of sex with the Christian faith.
I saw recently a woman who wished dearly to bring into being in her own marriage the harmonious fusion of spiritual and sexual love. She had discussed it at length with her husband, who, like her, was a practicing Christian. They had therefore decided, to this end, to pray together before each act of sexual intercourse. . . . I put this question to her: “Do you think that in your heart of hearts this prayer is really a sort of exorcism, as if sexual love were inferior, and needed to be, as it were, purified by prayer?” . . . I could see from her expression that she was making a discovery inside herself, that she could see an unsuspected contempt of sex lurking behind her wish to fuse spiritual and sexual love together in her religion.
It was a matter of a false scale of values which considered fellowship in prayer to be holier than carnal fellowship, whereas both are the gifts of God – Paul Tournier[p.66].
R E F L E C T I O N
● Do I respect my God-given sexuality enough to wait until marriage before I allow my sexual desires to lead me into physical union with the one I love?
Source: “ Our Daily Journey – Meditations of God’s Leading Through Life “ Vol.11
