Think about the Garden of Eden. It was a beautiful place filled with color and variety. God didn’t create such beauty for us to be unimpressed. He did it to bring us pleasure.
Genesis 2:8-10 Then the lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made. The lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.
Think about the most beautiful place you’ve ever been and multiply that by ten. That’s how amazing the Garden of Eden was. God created it for Adam and Eve’s pure enjoyment. He could’ve just given them one food to eat and a monochromatic color scheme. But that’s not what he did. He provided an array of color and tasty fruits.
God wants us to experience pleasure
God wants us to experience pleasure in our surroundings and in our marriages. Sex is another thing God created like beautiful flowers and fruits. He created it for the same reason he created a beautiful garden. Sex is meant to bring us pleasure, too. He didn’t create sex to be boring and uninteresting to us. He created it to be fulfilling, passionate and exciting. He created it bring a husband and wife together as one.
Don’t let sex become a bore in your marriage
Sex is meant to be a beautiful expression of love in marriage. It’s meant to be fulfilling, enjoyable and bonding. God is sad to see us turn sex into selfish pursuits, driven more by lust than love. He’s saddened to see spouses who become uninterested in sex or shy away from that pleasure or see it as something dirty.
Genesis 2:24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
- Watch the video together or invite someone to summarize the topic.
- What is your initial reaction to this video? Do you disagree with any of it? What jumped out at you?
- Describe the most beautiful place you’ve ever visited. What made it beautiful to you? How did being there impact you?
- What does it mean to you that God wants us to feel pleasure, even in sex?
- Read Genesis 2:24. What does the act of sex symbolize and why is it important for a healthy marriage?
- Would you say sex is currently a strength or a weakness in your marriage?
- If a weakness, why do you think that is? How can you both work to bring about healthy change?
- Write a personal action step based on this conversation.
