VS. April 6, 2025 Devotional
April 06, 2025
GENESIS 4:1 | 1 Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.”
Many sexual encounters are essentially impersonal, when governed primarily by lust. The participants desire one another physically without being able to see or honor each other as whole people.
By contrast, the term for sexual intercourse in Genesis is the verb “to know.” Sexuality is designed to express and enhance intimate knowledge between a man and a woman. But we cannot treasure someone in an intimate way, and communicate to them our committed love, without a deep understanding of who they are. Knowing someone’s body isn't the same as knowing their heart and mind, their feelings and convictions, their history and hopes. Sex without this knowledge becomes transactional, empty, and often painful, distorting relationships rather than deepening them. We communicate desire but not real love.
Most of our cultural portrayals of sex make pleasure central, not deeper connection. Do you agree?
Gracious God,
Shape my desires to fit Your holy purposes and not my immediate urges.
Amen.
