FRIDAY - 24TH JANUARY, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
UNDERSTANDING THE TWO SIDES OF THE COIN - Fitted For A Manner Of Life Series 011
I Corinthians 7:1-2, KJV
"1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."
There are those who say, "I can't help it." This "I can't help it" that has made some homosexuals and pervert of what God created as good and perfect began to raise its head when men began to say, "I can't help it" and began to violate the sexual boundary that says, "marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled..." (Hebrews 13:4). Meaning, unless you're married and recognized so, you ought not taste or eat sex. That violation of sex is one of the oldest. Before we talk about misuse of sex, that one is worth picking on.
Paul in writing to the Corinthians gives a reply saying, "it is good for a man not to touch a woman." "Touch" here is suggestive because it means"sexual relations." If the Bible says, "it is good...", then it is if we'll see why it is good. Now, that lone reply also dispels the assertion of some who says, "I can't be disciplined around the opposite sex." Even if you'll eventually marry, there'll still be a time of your life (no matter how short) that you'll need to stay single and expectedly a celibate. So, till you get married, your admonishment and what you must work with is, "it is good for a man or woman not to have sexual relations with the opposite sex" (I Cor.7:1).
However, once this period is over or you're in the zone where you're ripe for marriage and have the wherewithal to sustain a home, you can then marry. We also believe that by the time you'll near or approach this zone of life where you'll have been deemed ready for marriage, you might not until then face sexual pressure, burn for sex or desire the opposite sex.
If your seven year old, eleven or even seventeen is saying, "mummy, I can't help it", then something is wrong. Either they've been earlier exposed to what they shouldn't and have been matured forcefully to be in want of what shouldn't be their priority - sex! That'll be your own failure as a parent. While it's not wrong for an eleven or seventeen year old to have sexual urge, what is wrong is him or her saying like Samson, "I can't help it. Get her for me for a wife. It is now and not later. I can't defer" (Judges 14:2, 3). It is this, "I can't help it" that makes a loose man or woman of many even in the work/business world in our time. They just want to have sex and are less concerned who they have it with. Why? They've developed the habit of not doing without it. They've trained their appetite to be wild.
It is this inability to defer that makes many unripe kids go into the business of seeing the nakedness of each other. Like Solomon said, "do not arouse love until it may" (SOS 8:4). The truth is love (passion) is being aroused easily in this our world. Perversion and sexual pollution seems inescapable. When you turn on your TV, you might see it in movies or even adverts. When you hold a phone, an ad might pop up that doesn't consider your begging to differ. When you're in a public transport, the music the driver would refuse to pause might paint its picture and when you walk the street, you might hear it ring out from one mounted loud speaker.
Paul acknowledges that period of doing without sexual relations. However, he advices us (as men and women who wants to do right and abide in the confines of marriage) that we should get married to avoid fornication (doing it outside a legally constituted union).
This would mean after marrying, anyone of us is not expected to seek sex or pleasure outside that same confine we had entered into to prevent being tagged as having fornicated or sinned if we had had sex without marriage.
If you've erroneously believed that it's impossible, "a man cannot do without touching (having intercourse) with a woman and vice versa, verse 1 of I Corinthians 7 debunks that. However, it also recognizes our escape from falling into sexual sin - to marry.
However, if you're so indiscipline now around ladies but have cultivated the habit of tasting all you see, even if you marry (choose one amidst many to avoid) transgressing into sexual sin, you might soon trespass outside your union and transgress when you roam, desire and burn for other women or men than you have at home.
PRAYER: Lord, help me to be morally upright and free of every sexual entanglement.
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Matthew 16:13-17:1-13 & Exodus 6-7
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