sexual impurity

it hurts.

it hurts when i find out about christians who have been consumed by the temptations of sexual immorality. it hurts even more when i find out that these christians now take sex so lightly, that their innocence has been replaced by the socially accepted ideals of this corrupt world.

all this time, i was starting to believe that maybe i'm just being really silly. that i'm being conservative and naive. maybe i am a bit of all these things, but God has reminded me, through his Word, that it's not about what i think but what He thinks. what His view is on sexual immorality. what He commands us to do.

The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body... Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!... Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. -- 1 Corinthians 13b-20

i'm not writing this to judge, hurt, condemn, or offend anyone. i'm writing this as a reminder to myself and to everyone, particularly to christians, on how sinful sexual immorality really is. don't listen to me but listen to God.