This is when we foolishly start grabbing bot, live wires. A trained electrician once said that if you grasp the hot cords of ordinary 240 volt household current, you are so tight that you cannot loosen them. You have to scream until a friend turns off the power. Suppose there is no friend who cuts the electricity at the crucial moment.
That’s why dating alone at night can get dangerous. After a movie or a dance, what else can you do but … pet? And after having caressed it for a while, what is there to do but … well, why did God build this sexual ‘electricity’ within us? Fondling is a sexual stimulation that can lead to the actual act of sex. Yes, they say “everyone is doing it”. And if you go to the movies, to the dances, to the nightclubs or to the bars, it may seem that this is true. The answer to the argument that “everyone is doing it” is the words of Jesus; Iniquity will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end will be saved “(Matthew 24: 12-13). No, not” everyone “is doing it! There are still many young people who are not in those places, and they are discovering a better way to live: “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). Exodus 20:14), He was making us a wonderful promise. Believe Him, He will save us from the traps to those that will throw us sexual errors, and we will enjoy something the world misses completely: that “more abundant life.”
Touching doesn’t necessarily end in sex. It’s kind of like drinking alcohol; some people can drink and stop drinking whenever they want. Others find that when they start, they run down a steep mountain side and can’t stop (so the only sure rule of thumb for dealing with alcohol is never to start drinking). And once physical caresses arouse sexual desires, one or the other of the two parties, or perhaps both, often find that they cannot find the brake pedal anywhere; all they can find is a throttle. But what does the word of God say about caresses? We must not blind our eyes to its simple teachings. When Potiphar’s wife was in love with Joseph and begged him to go to bed with her, he wisely recognized that any physical contact with her would inflame this desire beyond all control, whether for him or for her. The Bible clearly but delicately reveals that his only way to escape the crime of adultery was to avoid any “fondling” contact. When she took the initiative to pet, he wisely “fled” (Genesis 39: 10-12).
No doubt referring to this experience, Paul says, “Flee fornication” (1 Corinthians 6:18). This doesn’t make any sense unless we understand that it also means and / or includes anything that initiates fornication. If you get on a plane heading to London, there is nowhere you can get off once you are already in the sky. Paul uses an interesting word when he talks about playing with a whore: “Do you not know that he who joins himself to a whore is one body? The two will be one flesh” Verse 16). The word “united” in Greek is Kallao, which means “stick or weld, adhere, adhere to oneself”.
Cuddling is a sexual relationship, pure and simple. Our Creator designed it with all its built-in ‘electricity’, for husbands and wives. The Bible teaches that such stimulating sexual “glue” will be reserved only for those who adhere to each other for life in marriage. It should not be promiscuous and causal sexual stimulation. God is wiser than man. He says:
Can a man take fire in his bosom without burning his clothes? Can you walk on hot coals without burning your feet? So whoever enters his neighbor’s wife; Anyone who touches it will not be innocent (Proverbs 6: 27-29).
The Hebrew word for “touch” is naga, which means exactly that, to make physical contact, and in this verse it clearly includes what the moderns understand as sexual “caresses” or, more understandably, “foreplay.” Any woman you are not married to can be the ‘wife of your neighbor’ in the eyes of God. The fact that you are not yet married to another person in the eyes of human beings does not mean that it is so in the eyes of God, who sees tomorrow better than we understood yesterday. Sexual stimulation and satisfaction alone are a poor foundation on which to build any relationship, including marriage. A thoughtful young man said, “Most couples develop a physical relationship first, then they have to try to build a mental, social, and spiritual relationship out of it. Having to make a human relationship out of sexual foundations just doesn’t do it. Love is total-physical, mental, social and spiritual. ” If you want the more abundant life the Savior has promised to those who believe in Him, build friendships with the opposite sex on the enduring qualities of mind, soul, and spirit. Let the physical relationship take its rightful place. You cannot dream of the glorious happiness you will get in life, because your home that you will one day establish will be a paradise on Earth. If you let the “everyone’s doing it” argument convince you, all you can hope for is the grim hell on Earth that most people have to endure.
