Our Christian walk is not about a set of rules, but rather about living a holy life. There is a reason to fight for purity of the marriage bed. That is because it is what God tells us is best. We don’t need to apologize for the things God has told us through His Word.
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18
The message society wants to send is that we don’t have to be governed by anyone or anything. If it feels good, do it. That thinking causes destruction.
As parents you have a responsibility to guide your children towards purity as you know the hurt and destruction that can come if they gave in to their desires. Pornography is not a problem that exists only outside the church. Pornography is sexual immorality. Emotional and physical affairs with someone other than your spouse is sexual immorality. Paul tells us to flee from sexual immorality.
We can’t approach the line of sin and think we won’t get burned. A couple of marriages in the church have fallen apart. Every situation was a result of sexual immorality. Some couples have such guilt over the mistakes they made before marriage that they could no longer enjoy the gift of intimacy. Other couples struggle to reconcile following the wife’s extra marital affair. Story after story was the result of dabbling in things God would see as sexually immoral. I understand how unpopular this message is. It goes against everything society tells us. You may read this and think, “I would never walk away from God.” Be careful. We are all capable of sin.
A couple must decide that divorce would never be an option. They must take away the door of escape if things ever got hard. Prior to getting married it seemed like a ridiculous conversation talking about divorce. Why would they ever talk about divorce?
Before you get in a situation you cannot find your way out of, you must take divorce off the table as an option. You must know that you have no choice other than figuring out any problem and starting the day over.
What areas of your life are you toying with things that you need to flee from?
Are you becoming extra friendly with a co-worker, neighbour, a old classmate, an ex-girlfriend/boyfriend et cetera?
Have you dabbled in dating?
