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Maintaining Purity

If one day you open the papers and you see the headlines - Pastor falls from grace. There will only be 2 reasons why it happened. 1 - Money, 2 - Woman.

These are the two things which the devil uses ever so often and in a clique manner but we never seem to get the hint.

Today, i'm going to talk about maintaining sexual purity. One after another, they fall into temptation. There are enough books written about these topics to fill a library. There are enough experts in this topic who give 101 tips on how to maintain purity and clean. So how is it that people knowing all these consequences, "they are pastors after all" would do foolish things that lead to entire congregations getting hurt by these acts, family members having to go through unbearable pain and hurt and the name of the kingdom take a extreme beating.

It just shows how real the battle is. One foolish act is all it takes for you to have to bear the consequences of your act for much much longer after the act itself. It just shows how no one is above temptation. It just shows how important it is for us to be on high alert all the time. Not even a tinge of sexual immorality in us. Don't even entertain a thought of it.

For those not married yet, Do you love your future spouse?

You may not know who he/she is, but if you want to be able to truly love him/her, protect your sexual purity for this very special person.

Physical purity:

Sex or even physical intimacy beyond the confines of a marriage is not and never and will never be God's original idea of love. It destroys us.

This is so important. The fact that you are not yet engaged yet does not mean that whatever sexual impurity you engage in now would not matter in a future marriage. Your body is special. Your body is sacred. Don't let a tinge of physical impurity come into you from now onwards.

If you have already committed yourself in one form or another, don't let it destroy your inner man anymore. God heals and allow him to heal you in this area as you engage in a relationship with God all over again. If there is someone who can heal you, it is him.

Mental purity:

The thing that online pornography does to people is that it destroys the very special union God has reserved for you. It destroys the expectation of a marriage from one of commitment/service/love to one of animalistic lust. It destroys your emotional capacity to give your all to your spouse. After all, there are images of so many other woman floating in your mind. And these comes back to haunt you.

Emotional purity:

Keep your heart to yourself. Having a crush for someone does not mean that you have to give the person your heart. Keep yourself emotionally pure. When we give someone our emotional love freely, without careful thought or commitment or worse still, give more than one, we are no different from prostituting ourselves, our emotional selves. You are precious, don't cheapen your being.

I find the following concept really helpful:

I will treat all the sisters around me like how i want other brothers to treat my wife in future.
So if i do not want other brothers to flirt with my wife, i don't do it to other sisters now.
If i do not want other brothers to look lustfully at my wife, i don't do it now.
If i do not want other brothers to think of my wife day and night, i don't do it to them now.
Until the day I've confirmed who God has for me, I'll stay neutral towards all the sisters for now.

Maintaining Purity is a lifetime pursuit. Before marriage, your pursue how to maintain pure for your future wife/husband. After marriage, you pursue how to keep yourself devoted to one.

Regards,

Jie Hui

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