Holy Communion and Holy Sex

"Marriage is God's sneaky way to get a person crucified" -  Peter Hiett

Many Christians today don't think communion is much of a big deal and neither is sex.  As a matter of fact, let's keep holy sex out of the pulpit and let's treat the bread and cup like its no big deal.  If sex is the sacrament of marriage, maybe we have an unbiblical view of sex as we often do of communion?  We have not discerned the body and blood of Christ.  It's just a piece of bread and its just wine or grape juice.  Sex is just a bodily urge and biology.  We have failed to discern our own human body in what sex is and we have failed to discern the body of Christ in the reenactment of communion.

Sex seals the covenant of marriage as baptism and communion seal the covenant of grace.  Just like something spiritual and supernatural happens when you take the bread and wine and place them in your mouth, something spiritual and supernatural happens when two bodies are joined in marital sex and intimate communion.  Great sex is a momentary taste of Eden.  Holy communion is a momentary taste of Eden.  Sex is not a result of the fall and sex did not cause the fall.  God made sex and said it is good within the beauty of intimate, holy, sanctified, relational covenant.  Sex is a gift to delight in which God calls good.  Communion is God's grace gift given to all who come to enjoy it as a communion of delight.

A Baptism of Snow

"Every dazzling flake of snow reminds me of the beauty and power of God's mercy"

I am in wonder and awe at the heavy snow falling outside my window.  For every drop of residue reminds me of the cleansing power of God's love.  Every white snow flake reminds me that God remembers my sins no more but God still remembers me.  I want to shout praise for every snow flake that falls down from heaven.  I am being refreshed and renewed in a baptism of glistening white.  As the snow glistens in the sun, so does the love of God today shine in my heart.

The snow today is like a sign and wonder from heaven.  A season of white forgiveness.  A season of God's grace and love in abundance.  As the snow piles up and up, so my heart is full of gentle peace.  Calmness is everywhere and God's footprints are everywhere to be seen by those who have eyes of faith to see.  One of the things God is teaching me in this new season is to delight in the cross.  I have always believed in the cross but I have never delighted in it before.  God is filling me with pure love as he kills my sinful flesh.  In the cross of Christ I am being lost in God as God is detaching me from the things of the world and the death of my pride.

"O blessed Cross,
I surrender myself to the crucifixion of self. 
Every snowflake that drops from heaven is a sign of your love and mercy.
May each snowflake represent the great drops of blood of Jesus that washes away our sins.
May each snowflake be in the shape of the cross that delivers our soul from death.
May each snowflake that falls be like a baptism if ice and fire, of the coldness of this world
and the fire of God's great love."