Tonight I am challenging my students to chose to be pure sexually.
For the last 3 weeks we have been talking about our relationships with the opposite sex and how we can have relationships that are pleasing to God. (For more on B-5 relationships, check out my talk area) Sounds pretty simple, but when you are talking about people’s “personal choice” this series has been a little annoying to some.
The Rash
I look at this series as a rash for a lot of my students. As we talk about their relationships, the typical adolescent creation has been to look at someone else. “He couldn’t be talking to me!” I expected this since it is a proper developmental response for middle adolescents.
But this series is like a rash because many students are coming to realize that they cannot escape truth with mere adolescent fantasy. They can deny outwardly by putting on a front but cannot deny the inward reality. Like a rash, they’ve tried to not itch it… But it is so annoying that they know they simply have to do something.
The Cure: Flee!
The cure is simple. Chose to live a life sexually pure. It sounds so simple, but I read this statement from a Resident Supervisor at Queens College in Belfast, “If I come across a student who is still a virgin at 20-21 years old, I know something is wrong with them.” This is the world we live in. My own father accused me of being gay because I was a virgin when I was 15! The lies that we tell ourselves.
By remaining sexually pure until marriage, you are choosing to avoid all kinds of calamities. Of course the obvious ones are… Unplanned pregnancy, STDs, and a skewed self-image. But the bigger reality is that choosing to be sexually impure is displeasing to God. As 1 Corinthians 6 teaches, “Do you not know that all other sins a man commits are outside of the body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.”
One question gets asked of me more than any other when it comes to relationships. “How far is too far?” Or it’s big sister, “What is OK to do before you are married and what isn’t OK.” Isn’t that human nature? We want to know how close to the line between sin and not sinning we can get when the answer we are given is simple… Flee sexual immorality. So “how far is too far?” If you aren’t fleeing sexual immorality, you have gone too far.
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