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I suspect we have become jaded by the marketing pitches on our TVs and in printed media promising great sexual wonders if we just buy and use their latest drug. Remember a couple of years ago when older men were featured in the TV ads for Viagra. It seemed that the old "fountain of Youth" myth could come true in a modern day drug.
Here in the 17th Chapter of Genesis we find an older man (Abraham was 99) and an older woman (Sarah was 90) receiving a promise of sexual renewal in its most basic sense:
"I will render you exceedingly fertile."
"I will bless her with a son"
"Peoples shall issue from him."
Our modern "ED" marketeers promise renewed or "better than ever" pleasure for those using their drug.
Abraham and Sarah were promised FERTILITY if they accepted God’s Covenant!!
In fact, the original covenant God promised the same thing.
"God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them, saying: "Be fertile and multiply;" (Genesis Chapter 1)
"a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body. " (Genesis Chapter 2)
In the account of the Covenant with Noah (Genesis Chapter 9) God again calls on the men and women of his covenant to be fertile. He said to Noah,
"For in the image of God has man been made. Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it."
In a age when, for some, sexuality has been identified with totally unfertile activities it is good to recall God’s plan for our sexuality. It is our sexuality that leads us to participate in God’s continuing creative action. It is in being men and woman who cling together, become one body and are fertile that we join in God’s eternal creative action.
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