Reflections

Sex

A taboo subject in the Church.

We need to discipline our natural desires and in this respect, sex is an area which causes great concern to many Christians. There can be no doubt that the sex urge in life is one of the strongest 

urges there is, and unless  we know how to control it then we will not be able to live abundantly.

The sexual drive is a God given power. There is no shame in it - only in the wrong use of it. Every 

normal person has a degree of sexual desire and we must decide right away not so much what it is going to do with us but what we are going to do with it. The sexual desire harnessed in the right way

can add a great deal of new interest to life, but if it is controlled then it becomes a sinister power that 

brings deterioration and decay to human personality.

Sexual drive tones up our lives and gives fire, life and sparkle to our beings. It is the creative urge, but bear in mind that physical creation is not the only area in which it can operate. It can function as creativity in other levels of our being as well. It can be creative in the realm of the mind in producing new ideas, new thoughts and new insights. Some of the greatest work in the world has been accomplished by people who denied the normal outlet for sexual desire on one level, have expressed it on other levels. This is not suppression but expression on a higher level. It is restrained in one area only to be let loose  in another. It has been said before, but it will  bear repeating here. The wrongly sexed are those who strongly serve.