The Pleasure of Purity

The title of this Chapter "The pleasure of purity" seems at first a contradiction in terms. In today's contemporary worldly thinking Purity and Pleasure seem to be at odds with each other. But once gain we need to look at how much of the world's thinking has infiltrated God's view of "pleasure"

Carolyn points out in her book "Feminine Appeal" :

"If you watch TV or go to the movies or read magazines today, you get the idea that the only people having sex "or good sex" are the ones who aren't married. If marital sex is even portrayed in popular media it seems bland or routine. Our culture has pushed marital sex into the background and instead celebrated immoral sex"

How true is that. We are bombarded with pictures, songs and thinking that slowly creeps in and pollutes our view of sexual marital fulfillment. It is hard to keep all that junk out...but it is something we must begin to throw out of our thoughts and lives.

Carolyn tells us " God intends us to experience tremendous joy and satisfaction when we express our sexuality within the confines of marriage. Marital union and fidelity allow a husband and a wife to wholly delight in each other, without the consequences and contamination that accompany sinful sex"

It is important that we keep guard over what our eyes see, our ears hear and our minds dwell on. It is important that we warn and protect our children.

Do you watch TV programs where adulterous affairs are portrayed as good and fulfilling? I heard of a new billboard that is up in California. It says something like "You have only one life...have an affair" The implication in that is that an affair fulfills a life! How far have we gone that what is evil and immoral we now think of as fulfilling.

It reminds me of Romans 1:25 "They exchanged the truth of God for a lie" and further in Romans 1: 32 " Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them" We ought to be very careful of the things we approve...if we find pleasure in them we ought to search our hearts and confess.

For those of you who are single can I encourage you to guard your heart and mind. Develop a Godly view of marriage now...cultivate friendships with women who display that. Don't get caught in the world's thinking. It will only harm you later.

A wonderful Pastor once gave me this illustration. If you throw a brand new baseball , clean and shiny against a dirty wall when it returns to you it will have a black spot. If you continually throw it against that wall it will ultimately return to you dirty and black. That is how our mind is...just that quick contact against that dirty "wall" returns our thoughts spotted. If we continually keep throwing our minds there, it will ultimately be as black as the dirty wall.



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REMINDER: NAPLES GIRLS...We meet tomorrow at my house at 7:00. See you then!