Jude: ⁴ I say this because some ungodly people have wormed their way into your churches, saying that God’s marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives. The condemnation of such people was recorded long ago, for they have denied our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵ So I want to remind you, though you already know these things, that Jesus first rescued the nation of Israel from Egypt, but later he destroyed those who did not remain faithful. ⁶ And I remind you of the angels who did not stay within the limits of authority God gave them but left the place where they belonged. God has kept them securely chained in prisons of darkness, waiting for the great day of judgment. ⁷ And don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God’s judgment.

 

I was thinking about this.. and about how many people.. myself included in the past... think that grace is a ticket to do whatever and still be right with God.. and you look in the church.. or out the church.. wherever.. no one wants to be celibate until marriage.. now granted.. I am in complete agreement with that.. I have no desire to be sexually celibate.. but I also see how it clouds our judgement.. I don't think I ever realized how much of someone else's spirit and thoughts you take on when you are sexually intimate with them.. until I stopped having sex...

 

when you remain without sex.. or unconnected to someone... I think you can really start to see what God meant about the two becoming one.. and about how we so screwed up when we did things our own way...

 

I think if we really understood it we would not allow ourselves to be joined with anyone else... I couldn't even have a conversation with a man that would lead to sex at this point.. it would be too revealing.. too intimate and too exposing... 

 

I find it amazing how I waited more than half my life to be over before I really started to understanding what God intended... and to be willing to go along with it...