Why is Purity Important?
CONVERSATIONS:
Q. Why is Purity so Important?
Check out these ads below:
“For sale: Second-hand Toothbrush. Slightly Used.” “For sale : Drinking Water/ only 90% Pure.”
Have you ever seen commercials like those? Neither have I. TV shows often portrays “purity” as a quality that is old –fashioned and not applicable to our present time. But I think we all desire purity to be a standard. We expect clean air, 100% safe water and our toothbrushes to be brand new and unused! : )
That’s what pure means: not mixed with anything else : clean and not harmful in any way.
I can’t forget a story a doctor told us. He said “When parents are expecting a child, they go to great lengths to paint the nursery, sanitize the crib and sterilize everything. They want the nursery to be a safe, clean environment for their baby.
But they don’t realize that the FIRST nursery of a baby is the mom’s WOMB. Would you still allow your body to be used for casual sex and bring in germs and diseases that may affect your baby’s first nursery?”
Advantages of purity: 1. Purity Protects you.
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. I Corinthians 6:18 ESV
Based on the above verse, how does purity protect a person?
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2. Purity pleases the Lord.
Is it possible to live a pure life? How?
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How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. Psalm 119:9 (ESV)
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV
I’ve lived a sinful life. Is there still hope for me? Yes. God’s word is full of his amazing grace and forgiven people living breakthrough lives. But we must be humble enough to admit we were wrong and repent.
Comment on the verses below: "Come now, let's settle this," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool. Isaiah 1:18
"I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. Isaiah 43:25
Prayer:
Dear Heavenly Father,
I have led an impure life. My life has not been “set apart” for You. My instinct is to hide or to defend myself but I realize that the only hope I have is to come to You my Lord and Savior.
You are my hope to be able to change. I cannot do it on my own. Jesus, I come to you as I am. I repent and acknowledge the following sins I’ve done:
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(take time to think quietly and lift them up to God)
Make me a new person from the inside out. Change my desires and give me the strength and wisdom to avoid temptation. I can do all things because You Jesus will strengthen me.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 (ESV)
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