My Offering

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Romans 12:1

I never stopped desiring sex since the day I stopped. I had not laid down that desire yet. And it’s been a heavy burden to carry - continuously desiring sex while in a time of celibacy.

I had let God refine this part of me... but I’d never offered it to Him. I didn’t want my drive to decrease - on the contrary, I’d been fighting to keep these things alive. Afraid that if I let it die, it would be gone forever... But in keeping it alive through this time, I was also keeping worldly notions alive with it.

If I want Your definition/understanding of sexuality alone, it makes sense that my understanding has to die... to be reborn.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh ¹ ... Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Galatians 5:16, 24

Note: This theme is continued in Day 55: The Altar

_{[1]  the animal nature with cravings which incite to sin https://biblehub.com/greek/4561.htm}