How ironic that August 26th was Women’s Equality
Day! It was on that day in 1920 that the
US Constitution guaranteed women the right to vote. That was a big step for women not just being
treated fairly and equally, but also in acknowledging their personhood! Now what is so ironic about that? Ironic that the anniversary of a significant
event for the personhood of women was the day after Miley Cyrus did everything
possible to tear down the personhood of women and make them into nothing but
sex objects and mere animals!
The world wants us to act like animals—give in to every
desire we have! And while the world may
not want to admit it, we are not animals.
We are human beings. There is a
big difference. We can speak. We can think and rationalize and deduce in
ways that the animal kingdom never will be able to. We are moral creatures with a sense of values
and right and wrong. Humans have the
capacity to design, construct, and use things for the betterment of other
humans as well as every other creature on the planet. Humans have the capacity to repair and heal
not just the human body but even the bodies of every other creature in the
world. We have the ability, albeit
constrained by sin, to change our behavior—how we think, speak, and act. Animals cannot. Animals, for all of their intelligence cannot
come close to matching us in what we are able to become and accomplish. We are so much more advanced! We are on a much higher plane of living. We can seek out all that is good and right
and excellent and noble whereas the rest of creation cannot.
Unfortunately, Miley Cyrus was not the first, and sadly she
won’t be the last, to do what she did for the personlessness of her own gender—another
irony: for when women (as well as men)
focus on sex for sex’s sake they lower and debase themselves into living like
animals—reliant solely on the feelings and desires of the moment. Sex becomes sex for sex’s sake, the fulfillment
of mere animal lust and gratification and nothing else. Call me a prude, call me old-fashion if you
want, but I will take the Bible’s purpose for sex any day. Sex isn’t for sex’s sake. Sex is a precious gift given to a man and
woman who are married to each other for the purpose of procreating children and
expressing to one another their love for each other. Sex isn’t love, but it is a way to express
that love.
In marital sexual intercourse sex isn’t about what one is
going to receive but about what one is going to give. In marital sexual intercourse one worries not
about themselves but about the other person.
Sexual intercourse becomes tender, caring, loving, compassionate, and selflessly
giving of oneself to the other.
Why? Because the woman sees her
husband as a person and the husband sees his wife as a PERSON, not an
animal. And from a Scriptural
standpoint, we can add that each person in the marriage sees the other as part
of themselves because of the “two becoming one flesh.” When Jesus calls us love one another; when
Paul calls upon husbands to love their wives, they are calling us to the
highest order of love! God would have us
go beyond feelings of affection and emotional connections. God would have us rise to a level in which we
see the greatest worth and value in our spouse, children, and anyone else that
we come into contact with. Love (I
Corinthians 13:4-8) focuses not on self but on the other person!
It is that same love with which God loves us. John 3:16 can never be over quoted: God so loved the world that He gave his only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life!” Adam and Eve possessed life. Satan deceived them into thinking
otherwise. As they reached out to grab
onto life they threw it away; they exchanged life for death, the truth for a
lie. And today the world follows in
their footsteps. In order to gain
equality and personhood we (especially women) are willing to throw it away for
sex for sex’s sake. We are willing to exchange being human to become animals;
exchanging truth for a lie, life for death.
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