Ecstasy

Euphoria for men (not by Calvin Klein)

Euphoria-a state of happiness, confidence, or well being

Ecstasy-intense joy or delight

The question was posed, “why sex and drugs?” the answer simply put is love, but it will take a while to explain, so sit back and read on as I bring this thing full circle.

Everything we do has its root in love. Every goal, every practice, every value and tradition has grown out of love…or I should say, the need for love.

For example, why does a high school senior want to go to college? That’s easy, it’s because society has duped that kid into believing that a degree will guarantee success and more money in whatever they want to do with their professional life. But why? Why more money? Why strive for perfection and being better at something than your fellow man? is it not so you can provide a more comfortable life for you and your family? of course it is, and there is your answer. You want a family. It’s a drive that is in your DNA to have a family, and you want a family so that you can give and receive love…mostly receive. So in short, the high school student wants to go to college to be able to acquire and maintain love. To further the point, I will say that if just education alone is what was respected in our society, then there would only be libraries, and not schools. Education itself if free as long as you can get the books back on time.

But still the question, why sex and drugs? Without question it’s because nothing can put you into a state of euphoria more quickly than drugs and alcohol, and nothing can overwhelm you in a state of ecstasy more completely than sex.

So here is what your pastor’s priest’s parents and professors will never tell you, and that is, people do those things because they’re frickin awesome! They put you in a state of awe, and so they are awe-some.

The reason that when you do those things that you can hear the sound of your inner voice echoing through every fiber of your being saying “ this is what I was I was created for” and the reason is…because you were.

You were created for love by love. God is love. God doesn’t posses love, he IS love! Love designed and assembled you. You want to be loved and you want to serve love out because that is in fact, what you were designed to do.

If you believe that Jesus is the word of God in the flesh, then you must believe his word when he says “I have come to give eternal life, and life is this, that you would know the father” That’s it! That is the meaning of life. It is to know love…to know the father. “if you don’t know love, you don’t know God, because God is love”…IS love.

God says that he IS everything and IS everywhere at all times, and that he spoke it all into existence.

So if that’s true, that the lord, who is one lord, is everywhere…he fills the air and outer space (jer. 23;24) and is controlling everything, and at the same time, he spoke everything into existence, then this is also true, that everything is love.

Everything is love. Either how God made it, or how man kind has perverted it, it itself, is love. In every example of love that I can give that a person can experience, ecstasy and euphoria are intrinsic to the experience. (intrinsic means part of the package)

And if the meaning of life is to know a love so powerful that it causes stars to burn with fury, and holds planets in orbit, and assembles living souls in the womb, then you can believe that there will be some awesome physical experiences that will accompany knowing and being known of by that love.

Everything is love, and that is why you will spend your whole life seeking after it. The problem is, if we cant control it, if we cant understand it, then we tend to stay away from it.

I can control drugs. I can take enough drugs or drink enough alcohol to get the desired effect, and at the same time, limit how much I take so that I don’t die. That’s control and understanding, and now ive accomplished two things. I've given myself euphoria that my being so desperately cries out for, and I've avoided God. 

And that is who we truly are. That is what we do. We take our limited access that we have to love in the strength of our flesh and we manipulate it to serve us because the love that we truly desire cannot be controlled or understood. We do not want to be satisfied by God’s approval of our lives because that would mean that what we approve or disapprove of would become irrelevant.

If I can just get the same feeling of ecstasy through controlling my sex life, then why would I give that control up? If I can get the same euphoria from drugs and alcohol, then why would I go anywhere else? If I can get all of mankind to applaud me and respect me for being brilliant or making money and having “things” then what in the world do I need a god for?

A God, mind you, that I can neither hear nor see. A God that I cannot feel with my body or walk with in the afternoon.

There it is…that’s why Jesus came.

God knows that we cannot see him. What do we call people who cannot see? Blind, he came to restore sight to the blind. He knows that we cannot hear him. What do we call people who cannot hear? Deaf, he came to heal the deaf. Leprosy is a disease that attacks the nerves so that you cannot fee. He came to heal the lepers. He know that we cannot walk with him. What do we call people who cannot walk? Crippled, he came to heal the cripples so that we can walk with him. He came to rescue us from the kingdom of darkness. He came to cause us to see and hear him, to walk with him and feel his caress on our souls. Living without the all powerful, unending love is in fact death, and he came to raise us from the dead! Hear the Lord and you will love him with your whole being. Just hear him and follow his voice, and you will be caused to see, hear, feel, and walk. You will be caused to experience life as you were created to experience it.

But you won’t. You will continue to clutch and grab for control as you lover her or you love him. And they will love you back and it will be wonderful. You will still feel like you have found your purpose. Sex feels he same whether you are married, unmarried or previously divorced, and anyone who says otherwise is trying to manipulate you. Sex feels awesome no matter what, and it will always feed your soul. The problem isn’t a question of does it heal your body and free your mind. The problem is, how long will it be that way? How long can you maintain love in your own strength. The same goes for drugs and alcohol. How long can you go making yourself feel great by using drugs or drinking alcohol? How much money will you need to earn to buy the amount of respect and comfort that you need?

How much energy will you need to put into sculpting your body, or practicing fighting before you feel attractive and indestructible.

How much knowledge do you need to acquire before you feel brilliant and unique? Don’t feel bad that you can’t answer those questions…nobody can. Man has been searching for those answers for thousands of years and nobody knows.

I know though. I know the answers but I can’t tell you. Even more important, you shouldn’t listen to me. I’m a human being and I am personally guilty of doing nearly every horrible thing that a man can be guilty of. You follow me and I will lead you right off a cliff. I am a liar anyway so don’t listen to me. Let’s just listen to the math. The numbers never lie. There is a reason why over 50% of marriages in Western civilization have ended in divorce. There are no numbers to tell us how many of the marriages that last are loveless. We don’t know how many people out there stay married even though they hat each other.

We do know this though…every person in your life sooner or later will let you down. They will betray your trust and they will use their own power to try and manipulate you. Everyone will. Parents, spouses, children and dare I say it…spiritual and political leaders. They will let you down and they will do it repeatedly. It will exhaust all of your strength, If you do not have access to the eternal, an powerful, and life giving, star destroying, universe holding, mind blowing love of God…then you don’t’ stand a chance.

Here is how it will play out for you. The two of you will love each other and it will be full of euphoria and ecstasy and eventually the things that annoy you about that person will get so bad that you will try to use your  own power to get them to change…they won’t and you will either stay with a person that you can’t stand and no longer makes you feel good or you will simply find a new person who does make you feel the way you did at first and you will go to them until the love runs out or you will just give up on people entirely. Either way, you will lose and the streets will be even more littered with the children of broken homes who are doomed to keep searching fore ecstasy and euphoria in the same manner that you, their parents taught them. Again lets look at the numbers. How much money and success will be enough? For that answer you only have to look at the front page of your newspaper or go home tonight and turn on cable news. You will see and hear clearly the story of a generation of people who tried to have enough and the destroyed the wealthiest nation in the history of the world in the process.

It is never going to be enough and you will never have the power to live and love in your own strength.

So when all the sex that once made you feel alive has left you heartbroken and all the drugs and alcohol that once put laughter in your heart and made you think so deeply has turned on you and dried at the skin on your face and has turned your brain into a well of hopelessness and despair and when all the money you made has only attracted people to itself and not you and when that money leaves you bankrupt either emotionally or legally like it has for millions of hard working Americans and when the beauty of your youth is gone and the effect of time on your face can no longer be hidden and nobody wants to sleep with you, party with you, come to your million dollar home or listen to how smart you once were, maybe then you will realize that you never hear the voice of your father in heaven declaring his love for you. Maybe then you will realize that you can’t hear him because you are deaf and maybe, just maybe then you will cry out to him to heal your deafness and cause you to hear him. Perhaps at that time you will realize that the reason you cannot see him is because you are blind, and it might cause you to cry out to him to be able to see.

One day, it might hit you that all of your hard work, and all of your plans to love on your own terms has left you heartbroken and ashamed.

On that day you will need to know this…

This is what death is, and this is where hell is located. Jesus didn’t say that one day you are going to die, he said that you are already dead. You’re not going to hell…you’re already there.

And on that day you will need to know this as well…

There is a God. Your soul will be crying out to him. Cause your lips to cry out to him! God is everywhere. From the air in your lungs to the furthest border of the universe, God is in it, he is controlling it, he IS that, and he spoke it all into existence. His word is that powerful. His word holds galaxies together it is that strong. His word causes billions of stars to erupt in burning light to his glory, his word is that hot. His word caused your tiny body to be formed in the womb, his word is that precise. The same God who’s word is that powerful, now wants to speak with you. He wants to speak to you and tell you how much he loves you!

What would happen if you heard the voice of your father? The same thing that always happens when he speaks. Something magnificent and wonderful and beautiful. What would happen to you if you were given all of the love that you were designed to live life by? The love of God that has no end, has no limits, and never runs out. The love of the father is a consuming fire that never burns out, never gets old, and is always thinking about you! hear him! Hear him! Hear him and you WILL love him. Hear him and you will know what it means to be loved. Jesus came as the word of God made flesh. “this is my beloved son…hear him!”

Cry out if you cannot hear. Cry out because Jesus came to heal your deafness. If you are not madly and passionately in love with him, then you don’t know him.

It’s fine though…he’s not mad at you or shocked by it. He knows that you don’t love him. To live without the love of the father is to be dead. He came because you are dead and you need to be resurrected! It’s what he came for.

The word of God came and got murdered by the very people who it came to, and then he was resurrected. The word of God lives! He lives! Understand that the word of God lives and is calling your name right now. He’s calling all of us and he is saying “you were born into the kingdom of darkness…turn around, the kingdom of light is within your reach!” come into the light. Come and hear. Come and love.

The lord lives, let the lord our salvation be exalted

Yashua