To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
Interpretation
Experiencing God's love helps us understand our worth, leading to healthier relationships and a positive approach to intimacy.
This quote by Timothy Keller emphasizes the importance of feeling loved and valued, particularly in a spiritual context. When one comprehends the depth of God's love and sees themselves as beautiful and radiant, it fosters a sense of self-worth that can protect against the potential negative impacts of sexual relationships. Essentially, a strong foundation of divine love can guide individuals in navigating their intimate lives more healthily and meaningfully.
In practice
This quote could be used in a sermon to highlight the significance of God's love in how we view ourselves.
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.
Love is the strongest power there is.
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.
"Come at once," she had written to him. "Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once"
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.
But how will I know who my Soulmate is?β Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life. By taking risksβ she said to Brida. β By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.
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