It is amazing to see that in creation, God has put in place all that we need to know him. It is not possible for us to conceive of the spiritual, the eternal the divine without having a physical reality in which to bed our conception. This is what God has in his grace provided for us in creation. We can understand what it means for God to be our Father because we have a family system God placed in creation that incorparates fathers. We can understand what it means to be the bride of Christ as we look at the marriage covenant that God placed in creation. We can understand what is means that Jesus is our shepard and we his flock as we observe the character of the sheep that God placed in creation and their need for a shepard. SOoo many numerous examples.
I don't believe it a coincidence that sheep have a tendancy to get lost, have need of the shepard to protect them from the wolves and always see the grass greener on the otherside. I believe God made them that way so that we could better understand our own nature. When we understand this it can be so helpful as we begin to link the imagary of the Bible to our lives.
It can help us to worship as we look to the heavens and observe it's majesty and understand that this majesty was created to be for us a reflection of the Majesty of God.
It can help us better understand our relationships as we understand that the marriage covenant is designed as a reflection of the relationship of Christ to his bride the Church
In particular relation to this passage it can help us to understand the seriousness of sin! In the imagery throughout the Bible it is difficult to miss but often easy to misunderstand that the sexual relationship enjoyed within the marriage covenant is a reflection of the relationship God intended between himself and us as humanity that we rebelled against. When God talks of Israel horing after other gods this is quite literaly what they were doing. The depth of that relationship that should have been directed towards the one true God was instead focused elsewhere.
Therefore in light of the fact that the sexual relationship is a reflection of the closest, most intimate, most blessed, most joyous relationship between us and God it is no wonder the Paul condems sexual sin so strongly. Paul says that in our new life with Christ we are to put to death "Sexual imorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and covetousness, which is idolitry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming."
If we are built for this depth of relationship with our heavenly Father and we understand that sin is an atempt to find this level of relationship in something or someone other that God it is no wonder that these things do not satisfy. We need to put to death all our sin that we can focus our life on the only relationship that will satisfy, the one we were made for!
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