In present times, it is sad to note that
many of our youth no longer consider pre-marital sex as SIN. To some, it is a
normal practice and to show that one is enjoying life. Unfortunately, that is
deception from the pit of hell. Any youth that embraces an immoral lifestyle is
destroying both his present and future life. Some years ago, a spinster asked
me a question, “Antie, do you think a lady can get a man to marry without allowing
him to have sex with her before marriage?” My simple reply was, “Yes.” But if
he insists, then “Such a man is not your husband, if he is, he will wait until
you both are wedded.” The word of God makes it clear that Fornication is a sin.
“Now the body is not for fornication (sexual immorality) but for the Lord, and
the Lord for the body.” (I Cor. 6: 13b). These are the struggles the young ones
are grappling with in our days. Has God changed His standard of holiness? Not
at all! Youths are admonished to, “Flee fornication (sexual immorality). Every
sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins
against his own body. (I Cor. 6:18).
As part of the divine task given to
Joyful Callers Counselling Ministry, we visit Secondary Schools to challenge
students about their studies and we also give moral instruction. On an occasion
I was warning the female students against unwanted pregnancies as a result of
careless living, but to my surprise, the principal sought permission to share a
story with us which shook me as a person. I learned that present-day girls who
commit fornication are now smarter and they rarely get pregnant, but that they
can never be successful in life however hard they try. This is because the boys
that they had slept with had removed some vital things from them spiritually so
as to enhance their own lives, but the girls had been completely destroyed
without their knowledge. Another fellow shared with me that some girls get into
some boys’ lives and their destinies get altered negatively while the girls
make ‘gains.’ Which other warning are you waiting for?
Ephesians 5: 3 states, “But fornication and
all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting
for saints...”). Read this scripture also and shudder, “...Nor let us commit
sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand
fell...” (I Cor. 10:8)
God demands holy living from all of
us. In Hebrews 13:4, it is written, “Marriage is honorable among all, and the
bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.” Wait until the
right time! I mean enjoy sex within Marriage! May we not be found wanting at
His judgment Seat. AMEN.
For further enlightenment on this
subject, please visit my blog on “Dangers
of pre-marital sex” on Esy’s blogs reading4joy@blogspot.com
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