A Corinthians Kind of Love

Love is such a cool thing you know? The sweet butterflies you get when you see your person or the way you miss them when they're gone. I just love, love and I always have. I like love songs and love movies and hearing different love stories. It fascinates me.

So with Valentines Day coming up I want to make a toast to love. I use to really hype V-day up just to be let down so for the past couple of years I didn't really like V-day, but this year I am such so excited for it. I get to show my hunny and gf's how much I adore them and I am so excited about it.

Anywho's with all the fabulous things that come with love, there are so many hard things that can come with it too, like heartbreak and the pressures of sexual sin. So today, I want to focus on the second half of the last sentence as hard as it may be because I think it's incredibly important to talk about.

Most people know not to have sex before marriage, least I knew that much growing up. I didn't really understand what all that meant or why I wasn't suppose to. I just knew 'it' was bad.

I wasn't in my bible much growing up either. I would read some here and there when it was convenient for me. Later in life, I read a passage that hit me hard. It was 1 Corinthians 6:13- 20. (Hang with me because I am typing the whole thing out because it's powerful y'all.)

"...the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? So should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Absolutely not! Do you not know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For it says, the two shall become one flesh. But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

Flee from sexual immorality! Every sin a person can commit is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you. whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body."

HOLY COW that is powerful y'all! Literally I was in college the first time I ever read this passage and I cried. "Don't you know your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you?" I thought to myself, No, no I didn't." Right then and there I wanted to make sure every young person knew why abstinence was so important.

That's another thing, growing up I heard all these words like sexually immoral and abstinence and was like, "dude idk what that means but cool." lol so I want to tell y'all those definitions.

Sexually Immoral- ALL sexual expressions outside of marriage.

Literally anything that has to do with sex is a sin if you are not married. I have said this before, but I'll say it again for the people in the back (yes I am cliche) even if you think you are going to marry someone or even if you are engaged IT IS A SIN TO HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH ANYONE BEFORE MARRIAGE. Thank you, next.

Abstinence- the practice of not doing something that is wanted or enjoyable.

Key word here, practice. Actually doing this is

hard.

We hear stories about how our friends have done "sweet" sexual things with their person and then we want that too.

Yea, it is sweet but that's because God made it a sweet awesome thing FOR MARRIAGE so be like Michelle and move on.

The bible tells us in Hebrews 13:4, "Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers." God will bless your marriage. Stay strong hunny and do not give in to temptations. The devil can and will use our closest friends to get to us.

The pressure is always on. I hate to say but sexual temptations start as early as 13. THIRTEEN. And most girls have given up their virginity at age 17. Words just don't explain how much this hurts my heart.

Love and relationships can be a wonderful, sweet thing friends. I pray each lady reading this finds a love described in 1 Corinthians 13. A love this is "patient and kind". A love that isn't "boastful" or "selfish". A love with someone who "doesn't keep a record of wrong doings." A love with someone who understand that your body is a "sanctuary of the Holy Spirit."

So with Valentine's Day coming up, some couples may have big plans to celebrate a romantic sweet night, but don't let all that sweetness make you believe it's ok to do "stuff" with your person because he's sweet, or he really does love you. WRONG. Those may be true and I hope they are, but that does not make it ok in God's eyes.

Ladies, we have to glorify God with our bodies. I have wrote so much about that because it is so important that God and His love can be seen through you in every part of your life.

I want to end with a sweet and true verse that my momma has in our house now, 1 Corinthians 13:13,

"Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

-TK