As I drove home this afternoon, a thought struck me: “Why don’t we ever question what God wants or doesn’t want us to do?” Now, hear me out. I’m not talking about “questioning” these things in the sense of considering whether or not we wish to obey. Rather, I am talking about questioning these things in the sense of asking, as in the case of why certain acts and motivations are sins, “Why does God not want us to engage in these things?” Hmmm… This is something I have always thought about. One of the most brilliant examples I can think of is God’s command for us to stay sexually pure, avoiding pornography, lust, and sexual immorality. I believe He wishes us to stay away from this because of the negative effects it can have on us, our relationships, and in the world in general. Pornography/lust foster an outlook on girls (or guys) that focuses on physical attributes; the opposite sex becomes a play-toy for indulging our own appetites. Isn’t this what we do when we lust? We see a girl or a guy, and we start lusting: we forget about the innate nature of the person and instead focus on how they can please us. And so they devolve from being human to being a mere object to satisfy our desires. Sexual immorality, I think, works the same way. It often leads relationships down a mudslide where the beauty is replaced with mere physical attraction and desire for more fulfillment of the human sexual appetite. This isn’t always the case, because sometimes one can engage in sexual immorality with another person without it affecting the beauty of that person; but overall, I think that sexual immorality in relationships poses a huge problem to the evolution and maturity of the relationship: it gets the relationship stuck in a rut where it will either continue in suffocation or die altogether (hopefully, we can realize what is happening and fix the problem). I think all of the things mentioned in scripture as sins are sins because they go against the fabric of God’s nature: they are selfish, greedy, and indifferent (no matter the masks they wear).
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