Oh Father, You are of purer eyes than to look upon evil, and You made us, male and female, to express love and fruitfulness through our sexuality. But we, Your creatures, have sullied sex, as we’ve sullied everything else, by misusing it, often by idolizing it. Teach us, like Your servant Job, to make a covenant with our eyes, not to look lustfully on others, but rather to see them as Your precious image bearers, many of them already Your children, many more yet to become Your children, and all of them due honor and respect. And help us to use our sexuality for Your glory, to multiply and fill and subdue and rule the earth in a godly way, expressing the fear of the Lord that is the beginning of wisdom, that we might thereby beautify and cultivate the earth, to Your glory, in Jesus’ name, amen.
