"What Am I Doing Here?"
Theme of the Week: Why Singles Save Sex
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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Key Bible Verse: I discovered that a seductive woman is more bitter than death. Her passion is a trap, and her soft hands will bind you. Those who please God will escape from her (Ecclesiastes 7:26). Bonus Reading: 1 Corinthians 6:9-20
As I hung up, thoughts raced through my mind. What am I doing here? Something isn't right about this. This is so easy and nobody else will know. But I'll know, and God will know. It was more than wrestling with my thoughts. I was in a full-out fight. I had to decide who my body would serve.
Just then, Sherron leaned close to me and whispered, "I've brought condoms."
My thoughts were racing. Mainly I was thinking, Am I one of those rotten guys who says he loves Jesus but folds when it's easy or when he won't get caught?
"No, we can't do this," I finally said.
"Why not?"
"We're not supposed to."
"What does that mean?" Sherron asked.
I jumped up and pulled her to her feet. "It means we're going out."
I hurried her out to the car, and we drove to the mall. That was the closest I ever got to having sex before marriage. Mom's phone call had kept me from making a big mistake. Many times I've been grateful to my mother for calling exactly when she did.
—Shaun Alexander in Touchdown Alexander
My Response: Do I know, facing a similar situation, whom my body would serve?
Thought to Apply: Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle. —Erwin Lutzer (Illinois pastor)
Adapted from The Great Work of the Gospel (Crossway Books/Good News Publishers, 2006) by permission.
Copyright © 2008 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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