How Then Does the Knowledge of the Supremacy of Christ (Opened to Us by the Gospel) Guide and Guard and Govern Our Sexual Lives?
How does it make our sexuality sacred, satisfying, and Christ-exalting? Of all the ways this works, I will mention only two.
First, knowing the supremacy of Christ enlarges the soul so that sex
and its little thrills become as small as they really are. Little souls
make little lusts have great power. The soul, as it were, expands to
encompass the magnitude of its treasure. The human soul was made to see
and savor the supremacy of Christ. Nothing else is big enough to enlarge
the soul as God intended and make little lusts lose their power.
Vast starry skies seen from a mountain in Utah, and four layers of
moving clouds on a seemingly endless plain in Montana, and standing on
the edge of a mile-deep drop in the Grand Canyon can all have a
wonderfully supplementary role in enlarging the soul with beauty. But
nothing can take the place of the supremacy of Christ. As Jonathan
Edwards said, if you embrace all creation with goodwill, but do not
embrace Christ, you are infinitely narrow. Our hearts were made to be
enlarged by Christ, and all creation cannot replace his supremacy. Continue at CrossQuotes
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