LIFE SCRIPTS

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18 NIV

Apostle Paul redirects his arguments here and focuses on sexual sin. Lust, being a drive towards sexual sin needs to be put in it’s right place. We ought to know where this conduit called lust heads to and it’s implications on our lives. A distinction is made between sexual sin and all other sins. This distinction doesn’t upgrade sexual sin to being unforgivable. It however, highlights the serious implications of sexual sin to not only our spiritual but also our physical nature. Paul states that whoever ‘sins sexually, sins against their own body’. In God’s original plan, sex was designed to be shared between only two people, a husband and a wife. It is a gift that is unwrapped and presented to a spouse wholesomely for them to enjoy what no other person has enjoyed. The man and the woman by the grace of God preserve themselves until that day when they experience the greatest pleasure they have ever had. This day is a day both for them look forward to and wait patiently for. They rejoice when it comes. Lust however sees the other person and craves for a sexual encounter with them. In a lust-driven mind, the other party matters not; satisfying my interests is all that matters. Preserving this gift to be enjoyed by the one I love is inconsequential. Tasting what the other one has to offer is all that matters. Lust leads us to steal the gift of another person which he or she was preserving for their future or current spouse. Since physical intimacy between a man and a woman is God-ordained, we lose our virginity to one who cares least about us. We share part of our physical nature with one who has no sense of commitment to us. We open up our bodies to a possibility of being taken advantage of by those driven by a lust towards us and not by a love for us. Isn’t it a wonder that when a man sleeps with a woman randomly, all he feels after the encounter is resentment? Remember the story of Amnon and Tamar? Sexual sin robs us of our respect both in our eyes and in the eyes of those we’ve slept with. Sexual sin belittles this great gift from God to be shared between two people committed to each other in holy matrimony. Sexual sin destroys our bodies. After such an encounter, the lion is out of the cage and on a marauding spree. When people are used through sex, their injured hearts desire to use others leaving a trail of broken and damaged hearts with both spiritual and physical wounds. Sexual sin destroys individuals and ultimately communities. The only solution to dealing with sexual lusts is to ‘FLEE FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY’. However, sexual sin also has consequences. Paul writes in the same book of 1 Corinthians that when one commits sexual sin, they join the other person and become ‘one body’. He infact aludes to the same concept of ‘one body’ as stated by the coming together of Adam and Eve in Genesis. Sex joins people together. It creates not only a spiritual bond but a physical one. The two think of each other. They miss each other. They know that what they’re doing is wrong but cannot stop what they’ve started. So they seek each other’s pleasure day by day until an ‘arrow pierces his liver’ as stated in the book of Proverbs 7:23. Sexual sins imprison many who’re locked in cycle after cycle of affairs and encounters. God however calls us to turn back from sin and repent. Deliverance from sexual sin is possible in Jesus name.