“How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your
Word.” (Psalm 119:9)
Christian
culture avoids it. Many pastors will never even mention it at the pulpit. You
won’t hear your peers talk about it. Yet it is one of the highest requirements
the Lord instructs us in; Purity. To announce the biblical principle of saving
intimacy for marriage offends people. Sex has become a bad word among
believers. Overall the church (not a capital ‘C’) has fallen into the same rut
as our near-pagan society. Nevertheless, guys and girls alike, The LORD still
asks us to be pure. Paul writes to the Church to be waiting, spotless and
without blemish, pure, for the return of Christ. [2 Peter 3:14] Now before you
get too overwhelmed with this heavy knowledge, you need to know one more thing.
Purity is so much more than just virginity. By the time we’re done, saving sex
for marriage might just be the easy part. To be and stay pure as the Lord
requires we must be wholly outwardly pure, inwardly pure and mentally pure.