The S word

We live in a generation where one of the things that seals two people's agreement to become boyfriend-girlfriend is to have sex, then you are branded as so and so's girlfriend/boyfriend. We live in a generation where we believe we have to "test drive" each other to be sure if we are compatible. We live in a generation where we believe we have to "practice" to perfect the art of sex. We live in a generation where there are articles and radio and television programmes by "night nurses"giving tips on how to please your girlfriend/boyfriend. We live in a generation where having random sex has become so casual that we call it "hooking up". We live in a generation where an awesome weekend is not complete if we haven't gotten laid. We live in a generation where girls believe that giving sex to a boyfriend is a reward. We live in a generation where a girl is told that for a guy to respect you do not give him your "cookie" until 90 days are over. We live in a generation where a guy is considered a gentleman or a good guy if he waits for at least 3 months before he starts demanding for sex.We live in a generation where we believe as long as we are in love and sleep only with each other God will understand we are in love so He is okay with it. We live in a generation where girls think the only way to keep a man is to sleep with him after all men are the more sexual beings so they cannot wait. We live in a generation where girls are so eager to lose their virginity and "get it over with". We live in a generation where sex outside marriage is so glorified that having an orgy is cool. A generation where "the saved" push boundaries and console themselves that they have not gone all the way it was just a bit of rubbing here and there so they are safe.
All am wondering is with all this going on with all this pressure where is the space to preach about young people being sexually pure? The church does not even talk about it as much it is busy telling young people that God will bless them and give them good cars and fat wallets.
Am not saying that it is wrong, yes God will bless us. But we have been so deceived by the enemy to believe that God's standards for sexual purity will be lowered just because we are "in love" or because we are young and we should be experimenting what we forget is that God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

1Corithians 6:18: Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 10:13: No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5: For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Sure God put these desires in us but He commands that we remain sexually pure that we treat our bodies as the temple of the holy spirit. Actually sexual sin is considered to be the one sin against our bodies, why then do we think that living this kind of life will still make us right with God? Sure we can repent and God will always forgive us, but the meaning of repentance is to completely turn away. Your life as a Christian is not to always recite the sinners prayer but to get hold of that life which Christ died for on the cross. God designed sex to be in the context of marriage where two people who have committed to each other express their love in a matrimonial bed.

The Devil is a liar! you do not have to "test drive" people to know if you two are compatible, it takes more than sexual compatibility to build a great relationship or marriage, You do not have to "practice" to be good its already naturally placed in you. You do not have to sleep with each other before the right time to prove that you are in love, actually it gets in the way of two people truly getting to know each other as the focus will be on how well the other person performs.

I know its hard and I understand to live in purity in this day and age, but I challenge you to be an exception to be the ONE that God will look down on earth and say I am proud of you because you chose to live in obedience. If you may be thinking you it too hard check what you read, what you listen to and what you watch is it leading you to sin? what are you pursing sin or Christ?

Following Christ will cost you your life...Luke 9:23: And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
So give it up to Christ and repent He will forgive you, pray He strengthens you when tempted, pray that He guides you to wait for the right time. I believe it will be worth the wait.