Just Say
"NO"
Suzy was a high school
junior who had dated her high school
sweetheart for over a year when
he finally convinced her to have
premarital sex. She thought the
fact that he loved her and used
protection would make everything
ok. A month later when she told
him she was pregnant and he told
her that she was on her own, she
had the most important decision
to make. Would she deliver a child,
even though she was only a child
herself? Or would she abort God's
most precious gift. Meanwhile, Bob,
a college sophomore, had convinced
himself unprotected sex was not
only safe, but a cool and daring
thing to do. When he was diagnosed
with AIDS six months later, reality
struck. Maybe he was not so cool
after all. He remembered that his
Sunday school teacher said his body
was a gift from God. He learned
that Paul asks in the Bible, "Don't
you know that your body is the temple
of the Holy Spirit, who lives in
you? Therefore honor your God with
your body." (1 Corinthians
6:19). The disease reminded him
that he had not treated his body
like he should. If Suzy and Bob
had only practiced abstinence from
having premarital and unprotected
sex, I believe their lives would
have been forever changed.
How does a young,
unmarried girl deal with all the
physical reactions that could occur
if she were to have premarital or
unprotected sex? She could become
pregnant or contract one of many
different sexually transmitted diseases.
It has been said that condoms, diaphragms,
the birth control pill and many
other birth control devices will
prevent 99.9% of pregnancy and diseases.
But that is not completely correct.
Accidents can always happen and
if you are diagnosed with an STD
or become pregnant at an early age,
then usually there is a high chance
of you losing a lot of things in
your life. You could risk losing
your friends, family, education
and most of all, your partner. You
would be very fortunate if your
family and your child's father's
family could help you out with everything.
But no matter how much help and
support you receive from others
or how minimal your disease could
be, it would still change your life
forever.
If a young couple
decides to have sex, how will they
be able to handle all of the emotional
problems? So many young couples
today are having premarital oral
sex because they do not think that
oral sex is the same as "real
sex". But isn't oral sex really
sex? If a young girl does start
having sex, she could lose some
of her friends. When people start
hearing about sexual teens they
spread bad rumors and start excluding
them from everything. If you have
no one to talk to about things like
this, it can build up inside you
and make you do things that you
will regret.
If a young girl becomes
pregnant, how is she going to afford
raising a child financially on her
own? Even if your family and your
boyfriend's family will support
you and your child, there is still
so much you have to consider. How
easily can you earn a college degree
when you are raising a child? How
easily can you work an eight hour,
job when you are raising a child?
How could you afford health care
to treat your STD if you were not
able to get the college education
or hold down a job required to support
yourself? Is it fair to ask your
parents to help?
The biggest question
of all is; how could you just absolutely
disobey the Lord? If you believe
in God then I do not see how you
could mistreat the body he has given
you. When it comes to our bodies,
the Bible declares that we do not
own them, "Use your whole body
as a tool to do what is right for
the glory of God" (Romans 6:13
NLT). We are told to avoid sexual
immorality and learn to control
our own bodies in I Thessalonians
4:3. Perhaps Billy Graham said it
best, "Within marriage sex
is beautiful, fulfilling, creative,
and loving. Outside marriage sex
is rude, ugly, destructive, and
damaging before God." I believe
that to practice abstinence from
premarital and unprotected sex is
obeying God and will always be the
right thing to do.
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