Here’s an issue nobody ever seems to want to talk about – especially in the spiritual world…What does God think about masturbation? Nobody was talking about this when I was a kid growing up, and it seems like only a few people are talking about it today.

My question is: If nobody’s talking about it, how’s a kid supposed to know what’s right and what’s not? I learned about it from my friends talking about it out on the playground at school, and I think there’s a much better way…

Outside of a couple very obscure passages, the Bible doesn’t say anything about masturbation. So what does that mean? That means that I’m not going to try and speak for God on this one…but I do believe the Bible is pretty clear that sex is a gift God gave us…a gift that’s supposed to be shared between one woman and one man for a lifetime. Anything outside of that is not God’s best for us…and that includes masturbation.

I’m not going to say that masturbation is a sin, because the Bible doesn’t say that. But I will say that masturbation is a “distraction� to the kind of intimacy we were created for. While I DO believe lust is a sin that the Bible talks quite a bit about, masturbation and lust are not the same thing. Masturbation CAN be a very selfish thing that’s all about me.

Sex is meant to be shared with your spouse. Sex is meant to point us to the intimacy we were made to experience with God Himself. But I think we have to speak up and start talking about some of this stuff instead of keeping all of these conversations behind closed doors. Honest, God-Centered conversations full of grace and forgiveness are the only way we’re going to help someone struggling through this issue.


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