FOLLOWING SCRIPTURE ?

Something that has been on my heart lately is how Christians struggle with following scripture. We have a tendency to want to revise scripture to fit our lives instead of the other way around. The following quote says it all for me…

“God’s Word is to be obeyed by His people. We’re the ones who need to be “revised”—not the Scriptures.” — Anne Cetas

This spoke to me on so many levels. One of the things we would like to revise is what the Bible tells to us about sex. As living breathing human beings, most people would love this part of the Bible to be one of those things we can leave up to interpretation.
I think this struggle is felt by many. The idea of being with someone of the opposite sex and not being with them physically seems completely unnatural...And the way God made us, this is very true. God made sex awesome, but within the confines of marriage. Why?

Here’s what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, 7:2-4

Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife.

If you really study scripture and try to understand His reasoning for this, it plays out all over this Universe. Not only does sex have physical dangers and unwanted pregnancies, but it also has emotional dangers. As hard as it is to not have that physical contact with someone you care about and are attracted to...giving that part of you to person after person is not what God intended. And if you are not married, you are not committing that "that person" will be the only one. Because of that, as human beings, we will never fully give ourselves, inside and out to that person. I mean most of us have trust issues and don't let just anyone in too closely. Should you be having something as awesome and intimate as sex when you can't GIVE yourself to that person? Don't you think that if you are getting to know this person from the inside out, I mean really know this person by spending quality time doing so, you would be able to build a trust and a closeness that you have never had before with anyone...so when you do get married and your bodies come together, it will be so amazing because you’ll love and trust that person enough to give them 100% of you. But if you are getting to know this person from the outside in, you probably will not be able to give them all of you because you may never be able to trust them fully.

I believe that if we are disciplined and obedient to God, and seek God based relationships, He will bless us in every way. And our relationships will flourish the way He intended.

Isn’t trying to revise scripture, any scripture, to fit our lives telling our Almighty Father that we don’t trust Him enough to know what is best for us. I believe if we use the “Owners Manual” He gave us and follow His word, we will always stay in GREAT shape.