Quiet Time: The Bible is Not a Sex Manual
Here's the rewritten devotional: --- We have a strange habit of shrinking Scripture down to a size we can manage. We flatten the wild, world-shaking...
This is devotionals, drawing on Matthew 25:31-46. It carries an emotional tone of hope, compassion and love.
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We have a strange habit of shrinking Scripture down to a size we can manage. We flatten the wild, world-shaking story of God's redemption into a tidy list of dos and don'ts — especially when it comes to the body, to intimacy, to the messy beauty of being human. But the Bible is not a sex manual. It is not a rulebook at all. It is the breathtaking account of a holy God who refuses to stop pursuing broken people.
In Matthew 25, Jesus draws the curtain back on the final judgment, and the surprise is stunning: the King does not ask about our theological positions or our moral scorecards. He asks whether we fed the hungry, welcomed the stranger, visited the prisoner. The Reformed tradition calls this the already-and-not-yet of the Kingdom — Christ reigning now through every act of mercy His people offer in His name.
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