November 13, 2003
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Passion for Purity
I am very passionate about pursuing purity. I think it’s because for the first time in my life, I really feel pure. Not because I don’t have any impurities, but because for the first time, I feel like someone that God has cleansed and made whole.
I have not always been passionate about purity. In my nonChristian days, I indulged in what was impure. I did not fight for purity at all. I just let whatever happen, happen (TV shows and movies and books…). Not only did I not stop it from entering my mind, I also sought it out. I wanted to indulge my flesh. How perfectly hollow, empty, meaningless and dissatisfying! Sexual impurity is bondage. It suffocates, kills, destroys and crushes.
But God has set me free. I fight for purity because purity means freedom. There’s a deep breath of fresh air that I can breathe. Purity is deep, down intoxicating sweetness. The less I fill my eyes and mind with thoughts and images about sex, the less I steal away from the beauty of it when I experience it in marriage. The shorter my “not a big deal” list is, the longer my “very special only when married” list is going to be. I’m fighting for purity because I want it to be exactly as beautiful and wonderful as God intended it to be when He first created sex.
So I’m going to keep avoiding those certain movies and TV shows and conversations… and everything else.
