Never Alone
One of the realities of dating and purity is that your flesh wants to spend more time alone, and it is then that you are the most vulnerable.
What I’m not saying is that you will do something. I’m also not saying that you shouldn’t spend one-on-one time with the girl/guy that you’re dating. You’ll need to have the opportunity to talk, and you’ll want to discuss things that aren’t necessarily appropriate for a group of people.
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Guard Your Eyes and Your Heart
We talked last time about the power that is now wielded by the Seductress not only through her physical presence, but now through photography and video. The power of this medium is not to be trivialized.
Pornography has destroyed marriages, it has encouraged all sorts of perversion, and it has taken ministries away from individuals.
It’s no wonder that Solomon goes the the extra mile to detail just what should be avoided, and of all the different sins Jesus could have used to talk about committing sins in your heart, adultery would have been one of the few that were used.
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A Physical Progression
One of the things that’s true about all sin, but especially physical sin, is that it has a definite progression and if you can stop it when it’s manageable the odds are that you can still remain objective about it.
Having decided that you will remain pure, and declared it up front you’ve taken some good first steps but that doesn’t guarantee you won’t be tested and that you or the person your with won’t want to compromise your decision.
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She is a Cheap Imitation
Much could be said about the bond that should be present between a husband and wife. That bond is reflective of the bond between Christ and the Church, a bond that is supposed to last until death, and that is unconditional.
Part of that bond is enjoying all that each other has to offer. Each person in the marriage relationship brings something different. They bring their perspective, their ideas and dreams, their opinions and their desires. They are two different beings made one through their vows and in the presence of God.
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Deciding Beforehand
In our last post we talked about some reasons that people have to remain pure before marriage. We need to have strong reasons for why we will remain pure or else “in the heat of the moment” we will compromise our decision in order to go further than we believe we should.
Such is the nature of sin—it keeps you wanting more, it wants you to get as close to the edge as possible, instead of staying far away from it.
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Rejoice in Your Own Wife
Imagery is used quite often in the Bible to make a point. A lot of what Christ said to His followers were in the form of parables. So it shouldn’t surprise us to find an analogy in the Proverbs that compares people to things.
Wisdom is often personified as a woman, and very often we see something compared to something else.
In the case of the passage we’re looking at today, “the wife of your youth” is compared to water, and there’s a good reason for it.
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Caring for One Another in the Age of Affluence
Over this weekend tragedy struck a family in our church. It happened right at the end of my garage sale—or at least that’s when I saw it.
I was on my way back to the church to return some tables that I had borrowed when I saw smoke billowing across the main artery I was on. I figured it was a house on fire based on the amount of smoke and the number of fire engines in the area.
It didn’t even occur to me that it could be someone I knew.
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Why are You Deciding to be Pure?
One of the most important weapons in staying pure is making the decision before you get into a situation. This goes for any sin, not just physical sin with the opposite sex.
Knowing what God thinks about the sin, how you should feel about the sin, and deciding that you will not get anywhere near the sin will go a long way to keeping you pure.
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