The family is the building
block of the community, society, nation and world. The
purpose of each and every human being's life is to experience
the happiness, joy and true love which is possible when God
dwells at the center of an ideal family. The best possible
conditions to create an ideal family occur when a man and woman
who each share a devotion to God being pure in heart are blessed
in holy matrimony having never compromised their innocence with
casual sex. While in today's society, such a high standard
of love is exceptional, all young people should be raised to
strive to maintain their purity through practicing abstinence
until marriage.
People fail to realize that
human sexuality is something akin to nuclear technology.
When used properly, extraordinary possibilities come to life and
when used improperly, it can bring devastation, suffering, and
despair beyond our imagination. Like nuclear technology,
sexual intercourse is meant for responsible, mature individuals
who are capable of being accountable for its lasting
consequences. Such conscientious people strive to
reach an awareness of how sexuality can best bring about true
lasting happiness while contributing to the greater good of
society centering on the will of God.
As a species, human beings
desperately need to elevate their awareness about the true
potential and purpose of their sexuality. There are at
least four essential components to sexuality which every person
should be fully aware of before they contemplate having sexual
intercourse. These four essential components of human
sexuality are eternal love, harmonized oneness, reproduction,
and pleasure.
As beings fashioned in the
image and likeness of God, the spirit of every human is created
to live on for eternity. Our physical experience on earth
represents a once-in-eternity opportunity to discover and
practice unselfish true love through establishing an ideal
family. When our physical life comes to an end, the only
treasure which we will take with us into the hereafter will be
our ability to practice unconditional true love within the
sphere of a God-centered family. Unconditional true love
is characterized by loving one's enemy and living for the sake
of others. Therefore the first essential element necessary
as a precondition for sexual intercourse is the mutual
commitment of husband and wife to embody God's true love for
each other for eternity.
With the realization that God
is a being of harmonized masculinity and femininity, marriage
between a man and a woman signifies the union of God's most
essential characteristics in human form. Thus, sexual
intercourse between husband and wife literally becomes a bonding
process where invisible elements are mutually exchanged allowing
two separate beings to become one. This process of eternal
bonding and union is spiritual in nature and thus cannot be
observed with physical eyes. However, what can be observed
by everyone is the harmonized oneness of a husband and wife who
after years together no longer see themselves as separate
individuals. Sexual intercourse is essential to creating
the spiritual bond which eternally unites husband and wife.
If the sacred intimacy of the true love of husband and
wife is compromised sexually and becomes divided, the
consequences are usually grave resulting in painful separation
and the long-lasting devastation of family breakdown. In like
manner, one can imagine the spiritual chaos and confusion that
results when sex is misused through the exchange of eternal
spiritual elements between individuals who only intend to be
together on a temporary basis.
It goes without saying that
sexual intercourse is the means by which human beings reproduce.
Sadly, however, many people never fully appreciate the
incredible miracle of human reproduction. This is
evidenced by a culture of death which allows a mother to abort a
fetus simply to avoid hardship or inconvenience.
Spiritually-minded people often stand in awe when they find
themselves contemplating the awesome creative power and genius
of God who is the source of human life. What human beings
fail to realize is that God only created one pair of human
beings on his own. All other human life has come into
being as the result of co-creation between God and the union of
man and woman. At the time of conception, man and
woman provide the God-given genetic material infused with their
mutual love conception while God breathes spirit into each new
life that comes into this world. In a God-centered
marriage, God literally participates with husband and wife
during the process of conception.
Without any doubt, from the
very beginning sexual intercourse was intended to be a
wonderfully pleasurable experience to be shared as a sacred
experience within the bonds of holy matrimony. Through the
pleasure of making love, a husband and wife centered on God's
love are able to build an realm of intimacy, mutual respect and
caring for one another which is a refuge where God wants to
dwell. By making lovemaking an unforgettably pleasurable
experience, God provided a built-in guarantee that human
reproduction would provide the ongoing multiplication of His
children and the expansion of His family for all eternity.
It brings God immeasurable
pain and sadness to witness how human sexuality has become
degraded by a culture of promiscuity which seeks instant
gratification without any awareness of the sacred nature and
purpose which gives sexual intercourse its eternal significance.
The vulgarity of the degraded state of human sexuality is seen
in how the innocence of children has been violated by parents,
siblings, and even by men of cloth. Without a doubt,
casual sex and the licentious culture which promotes promiscuity
is robbing our young people of their moral purity and destroying
our families which are the fabric of our society, nation and
world. The only hope for building a society, nation, and
world of goodness, true love, mutual prosperity and common cause
is to restore the sacred value and proper practice of human
sexuality within the bonds of God-centered eternal families.
