If you know me very well you know my heart for learning and teaching about God's heart for sex. In reading and talking with a dear friend tonight, I ran back into this truth nugget: "'keep your distance,' I say to women. Recognize that fundamental anomaly of human nature, that we prize what we cannot easily get. We take for granted, we even come to despise, that which costs us no effort. The bicycle given for Christmas will not be prized like the bicycle bought with the money earned by delivering newspapers for two or three years." -Elisabeth Elliot
God will bless us for waiting on his timing. He will also plant seeds of lasting, unshakeable peace in our hearts knowing that the gift was given to Him first, then our beloved. Waiting for this gift will create a holy and beautiful treasure for us to keep in our hearts for the duration of our time on earth.
This is not a rule He made just to make ourselves more righteous than the next person. Rather, it is because the One who created us and desires to be with us forever knows the distraction and spiritual barriers that are put in place when we put the desires of our flesh before the desire to know Him more. It can eat at our hearts to the point of desperation if we try to ignore it; and he is willing to let pain strip our lives of that which keeps us from Him. For me, this was all a good reminder that only Jesus, not marriage, sex, or any fleshly desire fulfilled will satisfy the deepest desires of our hearts.
“As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world’s interest in me has also died.”
Galatians 6:14
