Would God Create Something We Weren’t Supposed to Use?

Mike Leake 3 Comments

I got an email about a year ago that floored me. What floored me was the openness by which a stranger could write with such vulgarity. The email itself was a response to an article that I had written on homosexuality. The author gave me a lengthy lesson on positions of the mail “g-spot” and a short lesson on male and female orgasms.

I’m embarrassed to have even typed that much. The email was a million times more vulgar and forthright. Her argument was that homosexuality (or at least bisexuality) must be okay and even designed by a higher power because why in the world would men be created with pleasure zones in places that can only be stimulated during homosexual activity.

If I sift through all of the language that makes me uncomfortable, her argument is really no different that ones that I hear everyday. At its core the argument is that something feels good, God created it to feel good, therefore God must want me to enjoy it.

God, it is argued, would never create something if we weren’t meant to use it.

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All around her eyes set upon beauty. Everything that she sees is for her enjoyment and it is at her disposal. The beautiful sunset is there for her to enjoy. The flowers are there for her to smell. The husband is present for her to enjoy—and with him she will work and keep the garden. Together they will be fruitful and multiply.

Well, it’s not quite all hers to enjoy. There is that one tree…

It’s that one tree that the serpent will pounce on. He’ll fixate Eve’s eyes on the things that she doesn’t have instead of what she has been given. And he’ll use the same argument that he’s using in our day. “Surely, God wouldn’t create that tree if it wasn’t meant for your betterment. Take. Indulge. Enjoy. It’s there for the taking”.

And she ate…

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God, it seems, is far less pragmatic than we are. He’ll plant a beautiful and fruitful tree in a garden not for the sake of providing food but for the sake of displaying our hearts.

Men and women that will never be married still have properly functioning sexual organs. God created them with the ability to give and receive pleasure. God has created something in them that is not meant to be used in the typical way. Just as with Adam and Eve this forbidden tree is here to display our hearts.

The same goes for whatever male “g-spot” there is or is not. It means nothing if men are able to give and receive pleasure through anal sex. It, like the tree in the garden, is meant to display our hearts.

Will we trust that pleasure in God is greater than these lesser pleasures? Will we trust that there is more joy in holiness? Or will we listen to forked tongued lies which tell us that if something is temporarily enjoyable then God wouldn’t withhold it?

Friends, we will miss out on no good thing. There will not be singles in heaven that look back on their life and complain to Jesus that they missed out. Likewise, faithful husbands and wives, and celibate people with same-sex attraction, will not look back and say that they missed out by pursuing holiness over fleeting pleasure.

God is sweeter no matter how great the earthly pleasure.

Today in Blogworld 09.24.14

Mike Leake

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I wonder what Asaph’s prayers sounded like when he was in the midst of his brutish ignorance.

Asaph is the guy from Psalm 73 that was envious of the arrogant and almost lost his faith by fixing his eyes on the prosperity of the wicked. At root, dude was covetous.

And so I wonder what his prayers sounded like during that terribly dark season. I wonder if they sound anything like my own.

With envious eyes Asaph peeks at the luxurious living of his unbelieving neighbors. They’ve got prime rib and he’s eating a Jewish version of a Salisbury steak TV dinner; which, of course, is closer to manna (what is it?) than actual meat. And so Asaph bows his head and prays for prime rib.

Nothing. No answer. He’s still eating his poverty-meat months later.

The darkness sets up shop in his heart and bitterness slowly invades his eyes. Every blessing of another is a message about his own worthiness. When his neighbor gets a new camel, Asaph turns it into a prayer request. “Where’s my camel?”

Nothing. No answer. He’s stuck with his aging and increasingly stubborn donkey.

Asaph gets increasingly upset with the Lord. He knows that all of his troubles would be over if God would open up heaven and actually answer his prayers. He’d take a used camel. He’d take sirloin steak. Just something.

But God, in His mercy, gives Asaph none of this. Because you aren’t rescued from covetousness by getting covetous prayers answered.

Rather than open up heaven and give him a smelly camel, the Lord gives Asaph something far greater; namely, eyes to see that he already has an eternal treasure. When that truth penetrates his heart, Asaph has eyes to see again. He no longer sees the fat on their tables but the famish in their souls.

The only rescue for covetousness—and all the junk that parades behind it—is to have heaven’s perspective. When we understand that we already have the greatest treasure, these lesser luminaries lose their pull on our hearts. If we have Jesus we will never miss out on any good thing. John Newton is correct, “when you get to heaven, you will not complain of the way by which the Lord brought you”.

God won’t answer prayers that would set your heart on a path other than heaven.

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