Every person is born with a very precious gift.
That gift is your purity. This gift is not meant to be given
to several people, but to one very special person, your future
spouse. When first given to you, this gift is a beautiful
thing. It will stay beautiful if you guard it and wait to
give it away. However, if you give it to the wrong person
at the wrong time, it will lose some of its beauty and specialness.
Imagine the disappointment your future spouse will feel and
the guilt you will have when you tell them that you gave part
of their gift away because you had a sexual experience with
someone else. You will also have to bear knowing that since
you had a sexual encounter with that person, you took part
of the gift that rightfully belonged to their future husband
or wife. You can never take back your gift once you have given
it away. Your innocence is lost and the precious gift of purity
is opened, used, and tossed aside as if it were worthless.
You may pick it up and try to fix it, but it is used. It is
no longer perfect. Practicing abstinence is the only way to
protect your wonderful gift of purity.
Maintaining abstinence is also the best way to prevent teenage
pregnancy; you have a 100% guarantee of not getting pregnant.
Sure, you could use condoms or other forms of birth control,
but they could fail to do their job and a pregnancy could
still occur. Do you want the responsibility of caring for
a child? It requires a lot of time, energy, and an enormous
amount of responsibility. No teenager is ready to have a child
and take care of it. Teenagers are self-centered and inexperienced.
More importantly, no baby should grow up in a situation where
he only has one parent, or has both parents but those parents
are too young and inexperienced to take care of him. Abortion
would seem to be the answer, but that would mean taking an
innocent life and you would live with that regret for the
rest of your life. What about adoption? Well, that is still
not the best answer. That child could wonder for the rest
of his life why you did not want him. If you abstain from
sex, you will not have to deal with these issues.
Abstinence will also protect you from sexually transmitted
diseases or other diseases such as AIDS. These diseases are
very serious and can even be fatal. Would you rather take
the risks of getting pregnant and catching a fatal disease,
or live a worry-free, care-free teenage life?
Even if you do not get pregnant or do not contract a sexually
transmitted disease, having sex will not allow you to escape
the mental or psychological aspects of giving away your gift
too soon. You will experience guilt for knowing you cannot
get your gift back and knowing that you have disappointed
your family and friends. You will lose respect for yourself
and the other person will lose respect for you. Your reputation
may be tainted or even ruined, never to be restored. However,
if you abstain and save your gift, you will feel good about
yourself knowing you have self-control. Why sell yourself
short? The thrill lasts only a few moments. Those moments
leave you broken and empty. Why give up your precious gift
to someone who is only using you for a few moments of pleasure?
Your gift is worth so much more to you and your future husband/wife.
If you and your future spouse save your gifts for one another
and only one another, your sexual experiences will be much
more fulfilling and special.
If you have already given yourself away, it is not too late
to choose second-hand virginity (purity). Though no longer
perfect, “Shine up your gift!” Choose to abstain
from this day forward. Save your gift for your husband/wife
on your special day. Guard your gift! Use common sense; choose
abstinence.
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