Before You Mock Sexual Purity, Read These Practical Truths

No matter how unpopular this gets, I’ll always talk about it.

Last year, on World Sexual Purity Day, I created a platform for people to anonymously share their thoughts on sexual purity. I received many beautiful messages—but there was also one that crudely questioned my integrity. I wasn’t surprised.

Those who speak up for purity are often met with suspicion and mockery. We live in an age where people rarely practise what they preach, so genuine conviction is easily misunderstood. Yet, in spite of the insincerity that colours so much of what people claim to stand for, we go again this year! We cannot be silent.

As Ken Costa reminds us, “There are right and wrong choices… all the invented terms such as ‘inappropriate’ and ‘counterproductive’ are efforts to avoid the simple ethical fact that there is a right and wrong course of action.” Pre-marital sex is wrong. Sexual purity is right. Sexual purity does you so much good that I can’t bear for you to remain ignorant of it.

When God says, “Flee fornication,” He doesn’t say that because He is wicked; because He wants to deprive you of something natural; because He wants to encumber you with an impossible mission; or because He wants you to be frustrated. He says it because He loves you and wants the best for you.

Sex is God’s creation, which means it is good, but only within the right context: marriage. The devil’s strategy has always been to counterfeit everything beautiful God has made. Fornication, adultery, and pre-marital sex are his attempts to corrupt God’s precious gift.

The fastest way Satan spreads his agenda is through sexual sin. Every time you have sex outside of God’s design, a part of your essence is exchanged. Because demonic influences multiply exponentially, 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝘅𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝟮𝟱𝟲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀. Keeping yourself pure saves you from spiritual pollution and entanglements.

Beyond the spiritual reasons, there are many practical things you’ll never have to worry about when you embrace sexual purity:

1. Getting a girl pregnant

2. Contracting deadly STDs like HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, HPV, HTLV-1, etc. 

3. Getting pregnant unexpectedly

4. Being “used and dumped”

5. Having your reputation ruined because “everyone has been with you”

But sexual purity goes beyond celibacy or avoiding penetrative sex. It means:

𝟭. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀

𝟮. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵

𝟯. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝘆

𝟰. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲

𝟱. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆, 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆

The virtue of sexual purity is, in itself, sufficient reason to choose it. As Martin Luther King Jr. said: “On some positions,

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’

Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ and

Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ but

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, ‘𝗜𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁?’

The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of convenience, but where they stand in moments of challenge and controversy.”

𝗜 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝘅𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆. 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲.

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