God In My Bedroom

The Falcon Newspaper - Bringing sex out of the darkness:

This is from an article in the Seattle Pacific University student newspaper about the struggles facing students who are maturing sexually earlier, marrying later, and committed to abstinance.

'You're never in the heat of the moment with just your boyfriend,' she said. 'God's there, you're there, and the possibility of a child is there.'

'I've known women for whom [God's presence] is the reason they haven't had sex,' she said.

Professor of Nursing Dr. Mary Fry says that it can be useful to imagine God's presence in the room.

I'm with her so far. Great. I can't express how helpful this tactic was in my pre-marital dating life.

But, within marriage, she said, 'It's okay also to imagine God is polite enough to turn God's back and give you the freedom to be riotously lusty.'

Whoa! Lost me here. In all other respects this has been an article affirming the goodness of sex and God's creation of us as sexual beings, celebrating marriage as the season for sexual expression in loving relationship. If God created us as sexual beings and the marriage relationship is a picture of the love within the Godhead itself, why does God need to politely turn His back in my bedroom?? Is this not a holdover of an unhealthy negative view of sex as dirty, undignified or sinful?

I reject this statement. If God cannot look upon the riotous lustiness of my marriage bed, then something is wrong with it. If God has to politely turn His back because I'm embarrased to have Him see me "doing that" then something is wrong with it. No, God must be an inimate part of that intimate communion with my wife. If God is the love and passion that drive our relationship and it is sin to be out of fellowship with Him, then He must be a part of that act, too. As two redeemed people, who no longer live as slaves to sin, but possess the righteousness of Christ at least legally and positionally, when we delight in one another we should be delighting in Him as well, naked and unashamed. When we are rightly related to one another and to God, then God looks upon the riotous lustiness of my marital bed and smiles.

Read the full article here.

thoughts?