Not Just Physical
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is by Andy Stanley, and the Scripture is 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
What you do now can set you up for success or failure later. The myth about sex is that it is only physical. In other words, if nobody gets pregnant or gets a sexually transmitted disease and nobody gets hurt, then have a great time because it's just physical like ping pong or football. Sex is not just physical. If you treat it as if it is, then you hurt yourself and eventually if you get married you hurt your partner. Some married people around you are dealing with the consequences of bad sexual decisions. They can't connect the dots and see the connection between what they did when they were younger and the consequences of what they're dealing with now.
Your sexuality is actually connected to your personhood and soul. When a child is sexually abused and becomes an adult and begins to realize what happened to them, why is it so difficult for them to shake that off? If sexual behavior was just physical, then just shake it off and move on. Why is it that rape is so much more devastating to a woman than just getting beat up? Why is it that a woman will report being beat up, but why does she feel like she has to carry the secret of being raped throughout her entire life and can't tell anyone? Why is it that men with the deepest sexual issues usually have uninvolved or missing fathers? Why is it that most people's greatest regrets are sexual? As soon as someone wants to meet with me and says, "I have never told this to anyone before," it always has something to do with sexuality?
We live in a culture that wants to make sex as simple, surface and physical, but the reality is that it isn't just physical. There's no category of sin like sexual sin when it comes to the ongoing consequences in a person's life. God loves you so much that He has spoken into the area of sexuality. He wants to redeem you from your past and from your sin. He is waiting for you to run into His direction and then to trust Him.
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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