Joined With God
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Paul wrote about fleeing from sexual immorality in his letter to the Corinthians. In 1 Corinthians 6:17 (ESV), he says, “But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.” There is an undivided union that comes with connection to the Lord. God desires this relationship with us and has provided it through his son Jesus who gave his life on the cross and an atoning sacrifice. Jesus broke down the dividing walls between us and God.
Many voices today glorify sexual immorality as freedom but reduce the powerful union God created for sex into an expression of our identity or a way to gratify our desires. In Paul’s letter, he is exposing how empty and damaging sexual immorality is to us. It hinders our inner world, and it works directly against our own bodies.
In the same way that we make light of our sexual immorality, I think Paul is paralleling the way we make light of the union with the Holy Spirit. He says in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV), “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”
We can pretend that sexuality and the way we use our bodies is just a free expression of our identity, but Paul makes it clear that deeper things are going on when we engage in sexual immorality. In the same way, we can make light of the way that God interacts with us. We can pretend that our sin or rebellion is no big deal or more likely believe the lie that those things are disconnected from our relationship with God.
The grace of God is sufficient to cover all sin, but it is still important to have a sense of how serious our relationship with God is.
Today’s prompt may play a role in addressing sexual immorality in your life, but more so, I want us to see how easy it is to take God’s abiding presence lightly. My challenge for you today is to let God convict you of ways that you can take his presence more seriously. Allow him to show you how precious and unimaginably gracious his spirit is to us.
Meditate on the power of the first verse we read today. “But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.”
Amen.
