Yoked to Jesus

Next time when you have strong sexual drive, know that there is something in it to praise God. The desire is a God-given gift. It is absolutely good and acceptable to God. It is meant to give glory to the creator. It is meant for the loving union between husband and wife. It is meant to point us to our eternal union with God.
Then where is the problem?
The problem is:
The truth is:
Real manhood
Real manhood exemplifies chastity continence, self restraint, courage, honour, patience, all in the name of authentic love.
Sexual union is earned as the right reward for committed love for the spouse. It is never grabbed for demanded. Sexual union and the pleasure it offers is God letting us taste a bit of heaven. Heaven cannot be grabbed. If the one-flesh physical union of man and women is is a foretaste of heaven, just as the holy earthly life disciplines us to attain it fully and justly, it is the self sacrificing marital life rooted in authentic love that disciplines and earns us the right and the reward of the heaven-like union between the spouses. The pleasure we try to grab without any sacrifice is a counterfeit to heaven. There, the one we are face to face with is the devil, not God.
If the counterfeit that plunges us into the abyss of eternal Godlessness is so desirable, that it drags us to indulge in it time and again despite knowing the dangerous consequences, imagine how unfathomably great and desirable should be the Holy communion in marriage that God ordained, which can be surpassed only by the eternal union with God himself.
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