The gift of sex that God has given to humanity is a wonderful thing when exercised inside God’s plan. Aside from bringing new life into the world, God made sex as a means to enjoy the beauty of one's spouse in a way that brings pleasure and enhances intimacy. Like any good thing, sex, when turned to as an ultimate thing, makes for a bad god. When sex is worshipped, it consumes and births sexual perversion, which in turn fathers all kinds of devastating off-spring. Adultery, rape, pedophilia, pornographic addictions, incest, sex-trafficking, prostitution and so on are all branches on the family tree of sexual perversion that grow from the root of sexual idolatry.

We are tempted to seek fulfillment that can only come from Christ in sex. We make gods of the beautiful and give glory to sex icons in society. We miss the fact that beauty in its various forms is ultimately intended to elevate the creator of it, not the object itself.
In idolatry we are enticed to give worship to objects over the one who made all things including: beauty, humanity and the gift of sex. When we are tempted to give into sexual temptation, to seek physical fulfillment outside God's plan, may we reject the lie and run to Him instead. When we are enticed by the idol of sex, may we raise our gaze to behold the beauty of The One who is beautiful beyond compare.

"Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;" I Corinthians 6:18-19

“One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple.” Psalm 27:4

- Micah McElveen