I wrote yesterday that sex is awesome.

I also pointed out that sex came from God, and he created us to be sexual.  He wants us to want sex! Isn’t that awesome?!

But… why did he?

There are many reasons, one being the obvious.. to make babies.  But that’s not all there is to sex.  As I mentioned yesterday, a woman’s physiology makes it obvious that God intended sex to also be enjoyed for pure pleasure.

Those two reasons tend to be what we focus on.  We either strip it down to an act of obligation, a necessary function we perform for a desired end result (a baby), or we act like idiots chasing after the next orgasm with anyone who has the accompanying piece to our puzzle (pleasure).

When God created the woman, he did so after seeing that it was “not good for man to be alone.”  (Genesis 2:18)  When they were brought together, it says “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”  Yes, they were nude.  But it means more than that.

“They were not ashamed” doesn’t really mean that they weren’t standing there blushing because they didn’t have clothes on, although that most certainly was true as well.  That word in the Hebrew has the added meanings of “astonished”, “confounded”, or “put to silence”.  In other words, they weren’t negatively surprised, disappointed, confused, or giving each other silent treatments.  There, in the garden together before sin had entered the world, they knew of a oneness, a deep trusting, intimate knowledge of each other that brought great joy, physically and emotionally.

That is what God intended for sex.

And isn’t that what we all yearn for?  To connect with another person deeply so that we feel safe with them.  Accepted.  Wanted.  Desired.

Sex as God designed it is where the pleasure experienced by the body is intensified because of the intimacy shared between two souls.

Souls.  That brings us to the third part of Sex is Awesome.  See ya tomorrow!