January 23, 2005
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Sex, purity and God
That happened to be the topic at the AACF I visited on Friday night as well as today at MPPC. Pastor Doug today mentioned a student movement called True Love Waits. Students can make pledges that they will wait til they get married before having sex. He mentioned that since the movement started, about 2 million students have made the pledge – but that only 12% have kept it. What? That means 88% have lost to the temptation. Yikes! What a saddening statistic. I’m amazed and thankful that I have been able to keep my promise…
But wait. Did I make the commitment? I’ve always thought I did. But during service today, it hit me that when we were doing the True Love Waits commitment at our Christian club when I was in high school, I did not make the commitment. I didn’t want to. (gasp) I thought it sounded like a “nice” idea, but to wait that long… hrmm…..
I was not a Christian at that time. I had started going to the Christian club my junior year in high school for fun. And giving up sex til marriage did not sound like fun. But what I didn’t realize back then was saving sex just for marriage is where the fun is at.
I probably would’ve laughed at myself if I had known that there would be a day that I would be so gung-ho about purity. But I am today. There is so much more freedom to being passionate about purity than there was to being enslaved to sex and the idea of sex. These days I spontaneously pray, “Lord, please keep me pure.” The more I have been able to embrace the freedom in Christ in the area of purity, the more I want to be more pure. I can’t believe how amazing and wonderful and thrilling it is to be pure…
