Proverbs 5:15–20
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
It is a father teaching his son how to navigate the world as it actually is, a world filled with wisdom and folly, righteousness and ruin. And a central arena where this battle between wisdom and folly is fought is the realm of our sexuality. Our modern world treats sex in one of two foolish ways. It either treats it as a trivial recreational activity, like bowling, or it treats it as the ultimate source of personal identity and meaning. The first way, the trivial approach, says that sex is just a physical act with no inherent meaning beyond momentary pleasure. This is the lie of the hookup culture, a sterile and joyless transaction that leaves souls empty and bodies used. The second way, the therapeutic approach, says that our sexual desires are the very core of who we are.