"Make Love"

After listening to a certain song that repeatedly used the phrase "make love," I realized how horribly it misconstrues what love truly is. Scripture tells us that "GOD is love" (1 John 4:8) so therefore it is impossible for anyone to "make" love. "Make" is defined as: "to produce; cause to exist or happen; bring about" (Dictionary, 2013) and it is clear that no one can create GOD for HE is the "Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last" (Rev. 22:13). So you say "well Teressa, you know what the phrase mean," and although I do, I also understand the origin of it. It was created to make people believe that their passion and fire for each other is so intense that they could create love. Also, used as a tactic to get someone to have sex with them, tell them what they want to hear and what sounds nice. Sadly, it has worked and the usage of this phrase has progressed from passion into manipulation. Take away the manipulation and the low self-esteem that made it necessary for someone to hear to feel superior to past partners, and view sex for what it was designed to look like, you get something so beautiful and powerful that you will begin to understand why it is reserved for a married couple.

               So when in reference to sex, what is it exactly?

Sex is a gift from GOD for a married couple that allows them to celebrate an already existing love. For a husband and wife to join together in a special way allowing them to rejoice in their love physically; in a way that is not deemed spiritually appropriate with their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. The Apostle Paul addressed the high increase of sexual immorality and temptation thereof in 1 Corinthians 7:2, "But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband." (NIV) As we are called to "be fruitful"(Gen. 1:28), children serves as the product of this union, this celebration (and what is more beautiful than that!) Songs of Solomon is a book NOT meant to exploit their so called "love-making" but to encourage the beauty of celebrating love in this manner (a beautiful book of the bible it truly is!). However sex and its purpose has been misconceived and degraded. No longer is it sacred, but out in the open for all. No longer is it between husband and wife but everyone. No longer is it cherished and valued but degraded into a form of cardio. Sex is a celebration of GOD, and using it for any other reason and with any person other than your spouse (and NO your boyfriend/girlfriend who you have been with for more than two years so you feel like your already married is NOT your spouse), is disrespecting not only your body, but also your partner's body, the spouse you are actually meant to be with some day, and Love Himself.

• Dictionary, 2013. Term"Make" definition retrieved from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/make. 
• Picture: "On The Floor" by Lindsey, http://www.etsy.com/listing/150674312/print-of-original-oil-painting-by?ref=market