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There are three major areas that can blow up a marriage: Issues with communication, sex, and money. Let’s spend time this week focusing on what God says about sex.

Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Sex is God’s idea. He invented the one-flesh relationship. He created the man and the woman with all the necessary parts to become one in the act of intimacy. Don’t think that Adam and Eve came out from behind the bushes on Day One all blushed and breathless and said, “Whew! You’ll never guess what we discovered! That was fun!” God designed the entire experience.

Every time a husband and wife come together in the act of intimacy, they renew their covenant of marriage. They are reaffirming their loyalty and commitment to each other. They are naked, vulnerable, and not ashamed to give themselves to the one they have vowed to love for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, until separated by death.

One author says, “When our Creator devised the one-flesh relationship, He placed with it the potential for sexual intimacy that could bless marriage almost beyond belief.”¹ True, isn’t it? Sex is a powerful experience that can “bless marriage almost beyond belief” or be a source of constant tension and frustration. So how are you using God’s gift of sex in your marriage?

Father, thank you for the gift of sex. May we, as husbands and wives, use it to honor you and each other. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

¹ Wheat and Wheat, Intended for Pleasure.