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Being Thankful for Sex in Marriage

This is a reprint of a previous Thanksgiving post. It still rings true for me.

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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. Those of you outside the United States are not celebrating this day as we Americans are, but expressing one’s gratefulness for the blessings of life is always a good idea.

Today many families will thank God for food, family, friends, jobs, possessions, football games, and more. However, I would be surprised if you have considered thanking God for your sexuality.

Before you worry that I’m planning 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.

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 ever 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? 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?

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.

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 today to thank Him for sex.

I will be praying today for all of you as well — thanking God for your marriages and praying that He works in your daily lives to bring about all of the blessings that He has for you.

4 thoughts on “Being Thankful for Sex in Marriage”

  1. I have a lot to be thankful for when it comes to the intimacy between my husband and I. I had a few sexual relationships before we married that gave me complexes about “intimacy.” (I put it in quotations because what I had previously experienced was not intimacy the way it is in a godly marriage.) My husband was patient with me as we worked through those issues. Thankfully over time I have been able to truly experience what God has intended for sex to be. I know what making love means and how incredible the connection can be when you completely give yourself to your spouse in the most vulnerable way possible. We are able to communicate about what we like or don’t like and we can laugh at the awkward and funny moments. Sex was good when we were first married but it keeps getting better and better as we grow together. I am so very thankful that my husband loves my body, loves having sex with me, and loves all the parts that I am insecure about but turns him on. I am his “minx” and he is my “hunky man.” Yes, very thankful for what God created and what He has blessed me with in my marriage.

  2. I am so thankful that there are bloggers like you who are not afraid to talk about what’s really important. For me, who started out with a very wonky worldview, truth and honesty are like candy. I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do and don’t want to waste my time with fluffy info.

    Give it to me straight so I can get it right in my life. And so I can teach what is right to my children.

    Thanks so much for enabling my love of learning about truth!

  3. “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.”

    That’s my prayer and the hope I’m holding onto…waiting for that completion one day with a lovely “spare rib.” 🙂

    J, thanks for your diligence and passion for the truth in your posts, and I trust you and your family had a great Thanksgiving!

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