It's Naked Time.

I am not surprised that Adam and Eve put clothes on when they noticed that they were naked.
While being naked is amazing and liberating, it is also scary. Very scary. It's who we are.
But if we never get naked, we'll never make babies.
Therefore, we must get naked and be naked to each other. I am sitting next to my friend, Wes, and we just told each other a whole lot about ourselves. We uncovered sins that have been hidden since they happened, and it was scary, but liberating.
In a sense- a very real sense, we became naked. We shed all of the crap that we have wrapped ourselves in and as a result, our true selves, that we ourselves have never seen, were exposed. It was amazing.

True love is experienced when you are looking at someone else with such intensity and fascination that you can't even think about yourself.

What I mean is this: When you have a penis, a vagina is incredibly fascinating. The opposite it also true(so I hear). When a naked man is standing before a naked woman, they both completely stop thinking about their own nakedness and focus on the naked beauty of the other. This is why we must not taint our minds and hearts with pornography. If we constantly focus our eyes on pornography, we get used to the opposite gender. When we get used to it, it is nothing special to us. When it is nothing special to us, we have to look into our own minds to find new ideas to feed our fix. It is at this point that we have become self-centered people who are owned by our own desires. Not to mention, porn is unrealistic!

While this whole sexual thing is true, I want to address a social thing instead. Back to Wes and I. As we stripped ourselves down, we began to see things in each other that we have never found within ourselves. It was incredible to see how beautifully this guy was made! I was so in love with who he was that I began to have no fear of revealing who I am to him. Like biological reproduction, two parties carried unique things to the table, and mixed to create an ultimate product. Our relationship is the child that is created when we are connected by the Holy Spirit living in us. This child is its own being with its own characteristics that are completely unique to this conception. It grows on its own but is constantly cultivated by the two of us. It mingles with the other children and effects them completely. As we grow, so does it and it begins to amaze us with its beauty.

Please seek purity in your hearts. The pure hearted are the ones who get to see God. God wants us to see him, why else would he have showed up here in a man-suit?! Not only is he capable of purifying our hearts, he is willing! He desires for us to strip away the mortal clothes and live as immortal beings who are not afraid of the grave. As long as we wear mortal clothes, we will judge mortal clothes. If we want to make this work, we must trust each other enough to be who we are around each other. We must be able to drop our rocks that the other person deserves to get thrown at them and trust that they will drop the rocks that should be thrown at us.

Be real with each other. It is really cool. What is love if it is limited to good things? What is a pond if it is limited to what you can see from the land? Of course we love the good things, so do the tax collectors, but what if we were able to love the quirks about a person? What if we were able to love the people nailing us to a cross?! We can through the blood of Jesus Christ, our Lord who cared enough to die. I have seen small glimpses of this love and they have been the best glimpses of anything I have ever seen.

One thing I know for sure is that we can't do this alone. I am only able to truly love when that special girl is standing before me with such perfection that I have forgotten all personal desires except for the one to let her know how amazingly she is built. While marriage is the easy example, we must find this passion for every other human being. We are all made by God and therefore we are all hiding things that will blow each others' minds when we let Him uncover them.

Let's get naked.

(Please know that I am aware of my ignorance. I am simply wondering.)