“For this is the will of God, your sanctification” (1 Thessalonians 4:3). A simple statement, in this context indicating their need for avoiding fornication, and exercising self control.
For most, the sexual drive is very strong. This is how God designed men and women. The urge to procreate facilitates God’s instructions to mankind from the beginning to “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28).
However, God in his wisdom limited such an intimate thing to the marriage bed. “Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13:4). Some wonder, if God does not want us to have sex, why did he make us this way? The answer is, He does want this for us, but He wants us to be blessed, not cursed by such actions.
If sex is limited to a healthy marriage, there is the assurance of love, faithfulness and protection. There is a wholesome environment for raising children in the “training and admonition of the Lord” (cf. Ephesians 6:4).
But fornication brings regret, disease, abortion, rejection, objectification, and a host of other untenable problems.
God’s way is best. Men may think that they can ignore His directives. But, they do so at their own physical and spiritual peril!
