Symbol: Child with Crayon
Lesson: Restrictions teach us self-control
Illustration: Children are infamous for showing impatience while coloring. First they decide that staying within the coloring book lines is just too restrictive. Then staying on the paper itself is just too stifling for a budding artist that sees a wall as a easel for grander expressions. Everything is turning out so beautiful, so big, so free--that is, until mom or dad walk in the room.
The same goes with sexual expression. Today, people find the Biblical, God-given direction of sexual intimacy being restricted to heterosexual relations and only within the marriage arrangement to be too restrictive. They want freedom to express themselves in all sorts of venues that the Bible simply and frankly says is wrong. They don't want to stay within the guidelines of a heterosexual monogamous relationship, they want to paint the town red with their fornication.
The crayon that the child used on the wall is not at fault, it is not bad. It was the child's misuse of the crayon. Similarly, the beautiful expression of sex that God gave us is not bad. It is the misuse of this ability that God says "no" to.
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