What is Sacred?

My pastor said that in our culture; we now call what is sacred common, and what is common sacred.

He used the example of money and sex.

• we share sex, we have made what God created sacred & made it common.
• We don’t share money; we have made what’s common sacred. 

I have been thinking about this for a few weeks now and weighing it's impact. Then this morning, on my drive to work a Country radio station was asking listeners a simple questions, what do you remember more… your first car or your first kiss.

I only heard 10 responses but they were all, “their first car.”

The radio speaker asked why?

• The woman responded I can’t name all the guys I’ve kissed but I can name all my cars.
•  Another said you remember that feeling when you get your first car, it’s like non other. Your first kiss happens a lot, “your first kiss is common.”
• One said “I remember my first kiss with my spouse, but it took a lot of others to get there.”

Now, the first thing that rushed to mind was my first kiss. I remember it, but at the same time I remember my first car. Both weren't as long ago as the women calling in on the radio station but at the same time… why is a kiss “common”?

Maybe it’s because you invest more in your car than you did in that relationship from which your first kiss came out of.

Elisabeth Elliot one of my favorite authors write concerning this same topic; “I am convinced that the human heart hungers for consistency. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.” 

In all of this all I can pray is that I view things the way God would, that I hold sacred that which God hold sacred. That what is common would remain common and not take the place in my heart or actions as something sacred.