Post by ambassador on Aug 1, 2009 23:04:53 GMT -5
"Too Immature to Handle More"
Several months back, I had a friend and classmate tell me something that was quite personal. She said that she was pregnant, confused, and debating whether or not to have an abortion! Her parents did not know, and she had only found out a few days before. For a few minutes, I was in deep shock, not knowing exactly what to say first. Eventually, I began to explain to her that abortion was murder, a very violent and graphic death, and that if she could keep the child, to put him/her up for adoption. It was emotional for both of us, but I am so glad that the Lord led her to me so I could help her. Currently, she is still carrying her child, never going through with the abortion. How we praise the Lord for that opportunity to share the Bible with such a discouraged person!
For over a decade, teenage pregnancy rates were declining, but now they seem to be rising again. What course of action should we take? The answer is NOT—I repeat NOT—distributing contraceptives to our high schools. To counteract the large number of teen pregnancies, man’s solution is to use condoms and birth control, or to abort if the child is unwanted. These are the WRONG solutions. God’s preferred method of preventing unwanted teen pregnancy is ABSTINENCE! Training our youth in the Scriptures will solve all our problems, but man REFUSES to involve God. Sexual intercourse is restricted to a marriage relationship of a man and his wife: abstinence prevents STDs; contraceptives do not! What man thinks or says is insignificant, and God will never alter His Word to appease any man.
Just recently, another friend/classmate was married; by the way, she is a professing Christian. When I talked to her last year, she did seem a little nervous about her wedding. Although she was only 22, she claimed that she was ready. I also contacted another friend who was married within these past few months, and she also claims to be a Christian. She said she had known her husband for the past seven years. What a wise decision to know her fiancé for that long a period of time BEFORE rushing into marriage.
Talking to a friend the other day, he told me that he was neither financially nor mentally ready for a family. Smart man he is! I see people my age rushing into marriage, either because parents are pressuring or because of an unwanted pregnancy. Just the other day, someone asked me when I was getting married! I responded with a grin, “Oh, not any time soon.” I have college to complete, and then I can focus on a family.
Our world needs to quit taking the concept of marriage so casually. Marriage is a serious matter, a lifelong commitment to a member of the opposite sex. You rush into marriage, and it will oftentimes leave both parties heartbroken. God never intended marriage to be a burden or a trial, but leave it to man to ruin God’s perfect design!
Back in Genesis chapter 2, we see God first instituting the marriage relationship in the Garden of Eden. Adam awakes from his deep sleep to see a beautiful creature like him, a woman, who would later be named “Eve.” Eve saw a strapping, muscular man: her husband Adam. Over 6,000 years after the first marriage, the sanctity of a heterosexual marriage is being degraded and replaced with something inferior. This is not just a reference to gay marriage. Society finds nothing wrong with being “married” by living with anyone and everyone they want. How sad and how disobedient to God. Again, man ruins everything God made perfect and holy.
Please, for those teens and young adults who are reading this, get to know your significant other BEFORE you marry him or her. Abstinence and self-control can both be challenging, but it is not impossible. Rely on the Lord, and study His Word to strengthen your ability to self-control. Let the world do whatever they want, but just remember that you as Christian should represent God Almighty Himself, and you need to show the world that “Christ [is living] in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27 KJV).
Before you get married, be sure you are not too immature to handle more….
Several months back, I had a friend and classmate tell me something that was quite personal. She said that she was pregnant, confused, and debating whether or not to have an abortion! Her parents did not know, and she had only found out a few days before. For a few minutes, I was in deep shock, not knowing exactly what to say first. Eventually, I began to explain to her that abortion was murder, a very violent and graphic death, and that if she could keep the child, to put him/her up for adoption. It was emotional for both of us, but I am so glad that the Lord led her to me so I could help her. Currently, she is still carrying her child, never going through with the abortion. How we praise the Lord for that opportunity to share the Bible with such a discouraged person!
For over a decade, teenage pregnancy rates were declining, but now they seem to be rising again. What course of action should we take? The answer is NOT—I repeat NOT—distributing contraceptives to our high schools. To counteract the large number of teen pregnancies, man’s solution is to use condoms and birth control, or to abort if the child is unwanted. These are the WRONG solutions. God’s preferred method of preventing unwanted teen pregnancy is ABSTINENCE! Training our youth in the Scriptures will solve all our problems, but man REFUSES to involve God. Sexual intercourse is restricted to a marriage relationship of a man and his wife: abstinence prevents STDs; contraceptives do not! What man thinks or says is insignificant, and God will never alter His Word to appease any man.
Just recently, another friend/classmate was married; by the way, she is a professing Christian. When I talked to her last year, she did seem a little nervous about her wedding. Although she was only 22, she claimed that she was ready. I also contacted another friend who was married within these past few months, and she also claims to be a Christian. She said she had known her husband for the past seven years. What a wise decision to know her fiancé for that long a period of time BEFORE rushing into marriage.
Talking to a friend the other day, he told me that he was neither financially nor mentally ready for a family. Smart man he is! I see people my age rushing into marriage, either because parents are pressuring or because of an unwanted pregnancy. Just the other day, someone asked me when I was getting married! I responded with a grin, “Oh, not any time soon.” I have college to complete, and then I can focus on a family.
Our world needs to quit taking the concept of marriage so casually. Marriage is a serious matter, a lifelong commitment to a member of the opposite sex. You rush into marriage, and it will oftentimes leave both parties heartbroken. God never intended marriage to be a burden or a trial, but leave it to man to ruin God’s perfect design!
Back in Genesis chapter 2, we see God first instituting the marriage relationship in the Garden of Eden. Adam awakes from his deep sleep to see a beautiful creature like him, a woman, who would later be named “Eve.” Eve saw a strapping, muscular man: her husband Adam. Over 6,000 years after the first marriage, the sanctity of a heterosexual marriage is being degraded and replaced with something inferior. This is not just a reference to gay marriage. Society finds nothing wrong with being “married” by living with anyone and everyone they want. How sad and how disobedient to God. Again, man ruins everything God made perfect and holy.
Please, for those teens and young adults who are reading this, get to know your significant other BEFORE you marry him or her. Abstinence and self-control can both be challenging, but it is not impossible. Rely on the Lord, and study His Word to strengthen your ability to self-control. Let the world do whatever they want, but just remember that you as Christian should represent God Almighty Himself, and you need to show the world that “Christ [is living] in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27 KJV).
Before you get married, be sure you are not too immature to handle more….