Mystery and Wonder, Desire and Orientation (Judges 13.18)

“Why do you ask My name, seeing it is wonderful?” (Judges 13.18.) God designed us so that mystery produces wonder, and wonder produces desire. Desire, in turn, orients us, motivates us, and in the end, defines us. When your story is told, it will be the story of your chief desire. What does this have to do with marriage and sex? Everything. For just as God intended His mystery and wonder to draw us to Him, so He intended the mystery and wonder of the opposite sex to draw us to them. “This,” says Paul, “is a great mystery” (Eph 5.31-32). Indeed, for in the Bible, a mystery is something which is too wonderful to take in. When God is our chief wonder and desire, only then are our lives reoriented so that our soul’s compass points due north. Only then does everything else in life takes its proper place—especially marriage and sex.

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