God?
God & Sex?
God's Wrath?

God and Sex
(extract from Joshua: Power to Win, Kevin Logan)

"Go forth and multiply," God ordered. But how did he dream up such a delightful multiplication method?

Consider his thinking. The brain he had figured out. The heart ticked well in his heavenly laboratory. Kidneys, livers, etc., were perfected, and the eye fine-tuned. But how to duplicate it all? And repeatedly?

Creator he was, but he was also Sustainer and Father. He was going to have his hands full.

Now, he could have been a kill-joy and installed a baby button behind Eve's left ear, labelled 'press in case of maternity.' Alternatively, he could have opted for rubbing noses, or sitting on the Garden of Eden piano stool (the majority of pregnant Young Wives at the last church swore the coffee lounge music seat had something to do with it).

Thank God his birds and bees research gave him a more ingenius brainwave. And if he amazed himself with the final design, his creatures were even more astounded.

This gift reveals the Giver as does no other. He has a sense of humour, that's for sure. And more. He has a sense of beauty, one-ness, warmth, mystery, fun, delight, intimacy... The words are endless. So, sadly, is our misuse of what they describe.

Continued in next column...

Shame that we employ such a gift for our own profit. Our forebears abused it with sacred prositutes in a futile bid for rain. Some today use it as if going to the toilet; simply to relieve a need. Others sell it for money, advance or power in a relationship.

Of course, those who do so miss the whole point. Sex is the last great amateur art. It is for those who enjoy giving to their life-long beloved, as well as getting.

God must feel wretched sometimes. He gives of his best. We then use it to commit adultery with pagan gods, or prostitute ourselves in a thousand and one ways. Maybe he should have stuck with a baby button. Thank God he didn't.