Our Pastor spoke about sex being about as close to heaven as we will get on this earth. While about 99.9% of the people on this earth would agree with him, probably for the wrong reason.
When you are intimate with someone, you are completely open, completely vulnerable, completely unclothed (both physically and emotionally) in the presence of another. This is a difficult place to be for any human, because it goes against our humanity, our fight to survive, our natural instinct to protect ourselves. What a dichotomy within us! We yearn for companionship, friendship, kinship, and yet our “natural” instinct is to push anyone and everything away.
Our physical and spiritual relationships are the same. We long for a Creator, someone that loves us, looks out for us, keeps us, yet we deny ourselves because we feel too ashamed to go before God and allow ourselves to be vulnerable, we are too ashamed to come before Him with nothing to hide behind. What we fail to realize (because we are focusing on ourselves and not Him) is that He CREATED us! He KNOWS what we look like, physically, emotionally, with or without clothes, and yet He STILL LOVES US!
When we accept our sinful nature, become comfortable in the fact that we will never be “good” enough and that’s not why God loves us in the first place, then we can enter a truly amazing relationship with Christ.