Guilty Consciences

I was cruising http://www.answers.yahoo.com a bit. I do this for the same reason that I read people’s blogs – to see what people are talking about and what concerns they have. I was amazed at how many questions about sex are being asked by teenagers. Many of these questions involved the possibility of pregnancy and STDs. The tone of most of these was fear and paranoia.

Now you listen to me.

This fear indicates one thing – a guilty conscience. And this is a good thing.

I’ve encountered these kinds of questions not only on the internet, but in real life as well. A teen’s paranoia about getting pregnant or contracting a sexually transmitted disease is well-founded. But too often these teens bury their fears and numb them in order to quash their conscience, that thing implanted in us all that tells us that what we are doing is not right.

I wish that more people who listen to their consciences.

But our society has been indoctrinated with a sexually explicit attitude, and has been deceived into believing that it is normal to have sex before marriage. To many, the thought of abstinence hasn’t even crossed their mind.

Are you one of these? I am not only talking to teens now, but anyone who things that it’s okay to give your body away to someone you are not in a committed relationship with – and by this I mean the ultimate commitment of marriage.

The Bible says that only within marriage are two people to become one flesh (Genesis 2:24; see also 1 Corinthians 6:16). Only God’s design will bring true fulfillment. The rest is just counterfeit, or altogether empty.

Don’t believe the lies of the world.