Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. Those of you outside the United States don’t celebrate this day as we Americans do, but expressing one’s gratefulness for the blessings of life is always a good idea.
Gratitude Beyond the Table
This Thursday, many families will thank God for food, family, friends, jobs, possessions, football games, and more. While you’re at it, why not thank God for your sexuality? I plan to!
Before you worry that I’m going to carve the turkey, sit down with extended relatives, and have a prayer chain that includes me proclaiming, “Thank you, Lord, for my husband’s sexy body and that amazing thing he did last night,” I was thinking about privately thanking God.
Thanking God for the Gift of Sexuality
What about you? Do you ever pause and thank our Creator for the beautiful gift of physical intimacy in marriage? I mean, besides when you might have squealed “Thank you, God!” after a particularly good orgasm.
Have you thanked Him as part of your regular prayer time? Have you expressed your gratefulness for the way He designed man and woman to become husband and wife as one flesh? (See Genesis 2:24, Mark 10:7-8.) Have you told God how it amazes you that our bodies fit together in this way, that our brains are designed to connect sexuality with emotional bonding, and that this special form of intimacy is reserved for a single individual in your life?
Finding Gratitude Even in Sexual Struggles
Maybe things aren’t going well for you sexually right now. Maybe your marital intimacy isn’t everything it should be or could be. Maybe you are carrying hurts from your past or fears for your future. Maybe you don’t feel that you have much to be thankful for when it comes to your sexuality.
If so, you might begin by simply thanking God for making you a sexual being who can one day, with His help, experience the blessings God reserved for the marriage bed. It is my continual desire that you will learn how much God loves you and that everything He has designed for us is for our best.
A Prayer of Praise for Intimacy
Sex is God’s idea. It is His blessing to husbands and wives. It is His provision for making children, increasing intimacy, and providing pleasure to married couples whom He loves. Take a brief moment this week to thank Him for sex.
I will be praying for you as well—thanking God for your marriages and asking Him to work in your lives to bring about all of the blessings that He has for you.
This post was first published November 24, 2011 and has been edited and updated.
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