The desire for intimacy, along with the desire for family and children, is not only natural but, in a sense, divine. We naturally migrate towards intimacy and family like migratory birds following a deeply embedded instinct. But there is something that threatens this natural orientation; something that scrambles our signals and sends our inner compass spinning. It is the diffusion of unbounded sexual activity in our culture. It overthrows love with lust and corrodes the security of the relationships that hold our communities together. This threat is so pervasive that it is virtually impossible to avoid, and it effects all people young and old. It sets both men and women off course in different ways and tears families apart. It undermines the very thing that we should hold most dear: the cohesion of the family unit in our society. Men are thrown off course in their family loyalties, women are objectified, and it is the children who suffer in more ways than I can list here. It was a big issue when an aged Solomon wrote these words (and he would know) and it is a big issue today. Wisdom beckons us to look beyond the immediate gratification. It points us forward to see the ruins at the other end of the chain of events that begin with temptations of false intimacy.
Pray about how you should respond to this issue.
Read Proverbs 5
