Night 3

Night 2

Night 1

Why is he attracted to you?

What is the nature of this attraction?

The sexual relationship between a man and a woman is described biblically by the verb "to know". To know a woman was to be sexually intimate with her.  By contrast "to lie with" a woman was just simply to have sex outside the constraints of marriage, and as such it was expressly condemned. 

It is not good for a man to be alone. Without a woman a man tends to wander through life untethered and at loose ends, lacking purpose. This is what you bring to a potential relationship. It's why he's drawn to you instinctively. Your power is sexual in nature but its a kind of beauty that is more mysterious, more intrinsic, than a lovely face or body.  Because you are the image of God!

God rests enormous power in the heart of a woman. The most valuable aspect of a man's being requires your permission, your reception of him. God makes a woman the prize to be won-a prize that is meant to go to a man worthy of you. She becomes 'the ultimate arbiter of a man's worth!"

Retelling from Paula Rinehart, "Sex and the Soul"

I invite you to explore the world of your sexuality in ways that perhaps you never have- to consider the power and beauty God pours out on you. Your sexual experience may be as pure as the driven snow. Or you may have known enough shame and heartache to fill a book. The good news is that beneath the ashes of our pasts lies a golden core- the intrinsic, transcendent reality of being created in the very image of God. If we listen to the longings of the heart God gave us, we will find our way home.