11.22.2004
Purity
Some time ago, I was at a wedding. The bride and groom were both wonderful people that I knew, who are Christians, and the wedding was beautiful. There was alot of talk about the purity of these two individuals and their relationship. Purity is a word that Christians like to throw around to make themselves feel good. There is nothing pure about us, and we need to stop lowering God's standards. The standard of purity at this wedding was that the couple had not had sexual intercourse. Is that God's standard? What about modesty, speech, conduct, and physical touch. Is it really a great triumph of will and human spirit to refrain from laying together before you are married? A good friend of mine recently wrote to me talking about how he and his wife had dated. He was explaining how the Lord was gracious to them, as he know believes dating is a VERY bad idea. His chuch had held their dating relationship as a standard, how dating should be done. They were idealized as a pure relationship. Never mind the fact that they, like so many other "dating" relationships, had rampant hidden sexual sins of every kind, but as long as they didn't have sex, they were pure. This is what happens when you adopt the world's standards instead of God's, as long as you remain a virgin, you are pure. But we use the world's definition of a virgin, instead of the Lord's.
Some time ago, I was at a wedding. The bride and groom were both wonderful people that I knew, who are Christians, and the wedding was beautiful. There was alot of talk about the purity of these two individuals and their relationship. Purity is a word that Christians like to throw around to make themselves feel good. There is nothing pure about us, and we need to stop lowering God's standards. The standard of purity at this wedding was that the couple had not had sexual intercourse. Is that God's standard? What about modesty, speech, conduct, and physical touch. Is it really a great triumph of will and human spirit to refrain from laying together before you are married? A good friend of mine recently wrote to me talking about how he and his wife had dated. He was explaining how the Lord was gracious to them, as he know believes dating is a VERY bad idea. His chuch had held their dating relationship as a standard, how dating should be done. They were idealized as a pure relationship. Never mind the fact that they, like so many other "dating" relationships, had rampant hidden sexual sins of every kind, but as long as they didn't have sex, they were pure. This is what happens when you adopt the world's standards instead of God's, as long as you remain a virgin, you are pure. But we use the world's definition of a virgin, instead of the Lord's.
