Wiser and Happier: Special Military Edition from Time of GraceSample

Happily Ever After: Sex sells

The most disgusting thing about human slavery in America’s past is that some
people treated other people like things, chattels, objects--instead of human
beings. Sad to say, the entire sex-for-money world does the very same thing.
It feeds on people’s appetites and at the same time dehumanizes them.

Whether it’s pornography, prostitution, strip joints, or men using women for
gratification and women using men for money, these actions are sick parodies
of true human love. The longer people live in that fantasy world the less
able they are to form real relationships and healthy marriages. Men just
view women as sperm receptacles, and women view men as ATM machines.

Let’s be frank--the coarse talk common to soldiers, sailors, and marines
doesn’t help the situation. I know, I know--rough people doing rough jobs
will have rough edges, and so on. But what do we say about the value of
other people when the only parts of their bodies we ever talk about are
their sex organs?

Sex according to the way God intends us to use it is a wonderful, fulfilling
gift. Sex according to the way of the world drags people down into a pit of
disease, emotional emptiness, and corruption of the soul.

Here is wisdom from God--can you accept it? “[A] prostitute reduces you to a
loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life” (Proverbs 6:26). “Her house is a highway to the grave” (Proverbs 7:27).