Purity. To many people purity is from a physical point of view. Even though that is true, a form of it that really attacks me is the emotional side of it. Purity defines who we are on the inside. It's the beauty inside of us growing every single day. As a girl, I know the longing we have to be with that one guy for the rest of our lives. The one guy who will love us unconditionally. To fully submit to one man until death do us part. But what are we doing right at this moment to save ourselves for THAT special one? A book that I was reading a few weeks ago talked about how we go through the whole dating thing..giving little pieces of our hearts to every guy we pour ourselves into. And then telling ourselves that the pain of a breakup was just a "natural course" of life. Wrong. That pain is something God NEVER intended for us to experience. The way I see it, if we continue to give parts of our hearts to different guys, how much will we actually have left to give to our husbands when God brings them into our lives? That scares me to death. The fact that I could have feelings for a guy right now with zero intentions of marriage KNOWING I am robbing my husband from having my entire heart seriously makes me sick. Proverbs 31:12 says "She brings him good, not harm, ALL THE DAYS of her life." All the days. Every single day. Not just when y'all meet, but right now. Speaking for myself, this it not easy to live out. I've dated the bad guys, hung out with the wrong crowd. At the time it never seemed wrong to me. I never thought about how my future husband would feel if he knew where I was right at that moment or who I was hanging out with. I honestly just thought that since i was in love with Jesus and I wasn't going back to my old ways then it didn't matter who I spent my time with. I couldn't have been more wrong. The devil knows our weaknesses. He knows small lies to tell us that will eventually consume our minds. Philippians 2:21 says "For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ." Like whose interests have i been going after? It hasn't been until recently I've realized that those pointless "friendships" I have are nothing more than stepping stones pulling me out of God's will for my life. I know a lot of girls, including myself, that would rather have guy friends for many reasons, and I agree with this for the majority. But my problem wasn't having too many guy friends, but having too many guy friends who didn't know or refused to know the only man I should be chasing after, Jesus Christ. For me personally and all you who read this i just want you to know its time we stop settling for relationships. Stop dropping our standards for the moment, and start thinking about what God has in store for us in the future. He wants us to wait, wait for His plan and stop crushing our purity because we live how we want to and not surrendering ourselves to Him. Jesus paid for the treasure of our hearts with his own blood, who are we not to give it to Him?
"You are a daughter of the King, so hold out for a man who has royal blood coursing through his veins."
"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God." Philippians 1:9-11
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