"Drink water from your own well-share your love only with your wife. [16] Why spill the water of your springs in the streets, having sex with just anyone? [17] You should reserve it for yourselves. Never share it with strangers. [18] Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth."
Biblically I am to give my affections to my wife and only to my wife.
This is the way God Himself designed love, designed romance, designed marriage.
What happens is people begin to slowly gradually give away their affections to so many other things.
This is why divorce is so rampant, this is why life is so confusing, relationships are so shallow, because God has intended for us to only be connected to one wife or husband.
People begin to give their affections away at puberty and don't have the realization or understanding that God wants all your affection to go to your spouse.
They give their affections away through the things they look at, adore, fall in lust with, and have sexual encounters with.
People give away their affection through kissing, looking at, fantasizing about, touching, having sex either in the mind or even person to person.
Then they call it love, romance, and fulfillment when the bible calls it sin.
Then when they decide to get married or to get serious they can't understand why all their affections have been divided, tainted, watered down and diluted so when things get tough they revert back to Junior High and say well I didn't like him anyway he was flirting with all my friends.
My wife is the only woman that should receive my kisses.
My hugs. My affections.
My looks. My daydreams.
My touch. My body.
My attention and my passion.
Giving that away at any other time in any other way is out of the order of God.
1 Timothy 4:12 (NLT)
"Don't let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity."
You can be an example now.
You don't have to wait til you're old to set an exemplary life.
People think they have to go through all these problems, all these issues, all these trials, and all this shame, so they can "understand" before they get serious about their relationship with God, serious about purity, serious about their family, serious about their spouse and serious about their future.
As a matter of fact you are either an example of what to do and how to live life or an example of how not.
Biblically, all of us are.
Illustrate here: Water bottle. Uncapped brand new.
The water inside this bottle has been purified, tested, enriched, and is 100% pure drinking water that has been processed by Ozonatioted, Advance Filtration and Reverse Osmosis Technologies.
We are a part of a generation that does not know the meaning of the word pure.
Now I want to clarify for you what God's definition if purity is.
Purity is the state of being without mixture.
Without mixture!
From the beginning of creation, God intended for you to be an individual.. dedicated..solely..to..His...purposes.
Genesis 1:26 (NLT)
Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground."
When God made Adam and Eve in His image He made them completely pure.
They were consumed with doing God's will.
Next we see that Man's consumption of the fruit was an act of disobedience and a deliberate decision to give into self-will rather than God's will.
The mixture of self-will with God's will originated with Man's choice to do his own thing and the bible says that from that point on, mixture entered man.
Compromised purity resulted in contamination-a contamination that God is still working to restore.
You have got to get decontaminated and live the way God originally intended you to-without mixture.
Don't mix what is pure with things that are that are impure.
The Holy Spirit is our filtering process.
When we begin to ask Him to lead, encourage, discipline, and change us life as we know it changes forever.
Sex is beautiful if we are walking in line with the purity the God has set in order, but compromise turns it into torment and affliction-it will either be one or the other.
I believe we have to not be willing to remain silent while our peers go to hell.
God wants us to use our words, our lives, our abilities, to change the life of people around us who are hungry for truth and in desperate need of Jesus.
Say something with your life.
Say something with your decisions.
Say something with your influence.
Say something with your purity.
Say something.
I believe you can find your identity in your Heavenly Father and be motivated by a desire to please Him that dictates the way you live your life.
I believe you can live pure.
But I know you can’t live pure in and through your own strength.
Jesus loves you the way you are so He can make you into the person He wants you to become.
Purity extends far beyond not doing wrong, not sleeping with somebody, not watching provocative TV shows.
Purity is the restoration of the image of God in you.
Don’t you know that you are the only Jesus some people will ever see?
In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God’s image and endanger an entire generation’s understanding of Jesus.
The image of God in you will shine out, radiate out, it will be impossible to hide Him as He lives in you.
Why would you want to?
2 Timothy 2:22 (NLT)"Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts."
I love that God gives us clear cut direction on what to run from and more importantly what to pursue.
The closer you get to fulfilling your dream, the harder Satan will try to entice you to sin.
This is because the fulfillment of your destiny will lead to the enemy's demise.
Don't be deceived into believing you can have it all and change the world.
One or the other. Your choice.
Your ability to live pure depends upon your belief in the reality that God is working for you while the enemy is working against you.
Without mixture.
What do you need to allow the Spirit of God to filter out?
Out of your mind?
Out of your desires?
And out of your present so it can be out of your future?
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