Let's talk about sex

We know casual sex feels good at the moment and everyone is doing it but it's not working somehow. It complicates our life and one temporal moment lasts a lifetime. Why?

"There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, “The two become one.” Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the kind of sex that can never “become one.” There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for “becoming one” with another. Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body." (1 Corinthians 6:16-20 MSG)

I can't claim credit for the important reminder of what sex is. Andy Stanley said it best how our world has twisted what sex is. (Twisted Lesson Number 4 http://northpoint.org/messages/twisted/category-of-one/)

Now how to teach the teen who sees the fun everyone is having and wants to engage in the activity that's so inviting by a world who is shoving it in his face...

If he only knew how the one RSVP yes has implications that will last a life time. I know because I can honestly look back at my own life. 

Let's be real with this generation! We know it's not just physical. Let's be real with ourselves! Read between the lines of what you see and hear and teach the next generation to do the same.

What are you listening to?

You can't be willing to hear God if you got your headphones on listening to yourself play your own music. 

I know a guy who is so passionate about his music, he wanted me to purchase the headphones he used because he knew they were the quality needed to hear his voice loud and clear without any static.

Since when do we need to pressure people into hearing us? Why do so many feel like they've gone unheard? Why does the world seemed to accept the culture of plugging in only what you want to hear and tuning everything else out? And since when do babies need earphones?

Every question requires one personal inventory of asking yourself what it is you chose to listen to and what it is you chose to tune out.

We are warned in the last days we will have convinced ourselves of our own righteousness so much so that our own voices are the ones we want to hear and all others get attuned to what we want to hear them say.

"For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4 NLT)

The Bible says faith comes by hearing in Romans 10:17. It's become harder these days to hear God amongst the many voices competing for attention. There is no greater time than now to discern what the Bible says about ears.

Again it's a simple call to reflect the Creator who is always listening as seen in Psalm 34. David pleaded for God to hear his cries in those intimate poems. He sought spiritual counsel to give him a hearing test. Some times it's so hard when we only hear mockers the psalmist writes in Psalm 44.

What are we doing to check our ears or are we just plugging them up?

The gospels proclaim those who hear and believe are blessed. Anyone who has ears to hear should listen (Matt 4:9, 11:5, Rev 13:9 and more). People are longing to hear but don't Luke said. 

I love how Rob Lacey put it in Word on the Street. He said they got wandering eyeness and selective deafness.

Listen up!

That is why the Holy Spirit says, “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled, when they tested me in the wilderness. There your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw my miracles for forty years. (Hebrews 3:7-9 NLT)

The choice is yours on what you will clog your ears with and your choice to teach the next generation how to train their ears before making it acceptable to plug their ears up.