Hopefully Devoted

That's how you have to think of it, if you're really gonna do this abstinent thing. You can have sex only after you get through the bread, butter, house salad, and meatloaf. You don't start dinner with an apple pie. Sure you COULD..... but should you? Should you give your body to someone who doesn't love your soul? Should you ask that of someone else? If we're being real, sex is like somebody ELSE's dessert. And you would NEVER put your fork in somebody else's pie without their permission. That body you're lusting after belong's to God. That's his pie. And if you want a slice.. if you're even thinking about taking a bite, then you better read up on the terms and conditions. You don't have God's permission to have sex with someone until you've signed off on loving that person through thick and thin. You don't have permission until you vow to the creator of all things that you will love and cherish this particular slice of apple pie for the rest of your life to the best of your ability. If you're still tempted (like I was) knowing full well how God feels about it, then you have to remove as many obstacles of tempation that you possibly can. Sex and dessert have always been on the list my favorite things; even when I couldn't have them. So I packed up my 20some sex books and paraphernalia, locked them in a trunk and banished them to the room of forgotten things (my mother's garage). I put them out of sight so that I could focus on the important things. But I kept them in a safe place.. so that I could enjoy that sweet treat after I made it through the main course.

Check yourself before you launch into the latest office gossip.

I knew that he would try to discourage me from believing that there is any man who can be devoted to a woman without having sex with her. I asked him because I knew he would try to steal my hope for a better future and I was ready to hear it. I was ready to put all the enemy’s lies to the test against my renewed faith in God’s promise. I had already asked the Lord and heard back His resounding yes. I wanted to hear the enemy’s best defense for why I couldn’t have love without sex. I asked him because I was falling in love with a man, who had already shown me more kindness and tenderness than any man before, and we had yet to even kissed. Before I stepped on out faith, I prepared for war.