Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
The pastor’s collection of prayer letters was washed up at the beach in a plastic bag, letters containing heart breaking stories of human anguish.
They were intended to have been laid on the altar in a Baptist church and the pastor and congregants praying that God would notice their pleas and respond. (If they had known, they needn’t have tried to “pray” this way.)
There was the teenage girl who prayed, “Lord, I know that I have had an abortion and I killed one of your angels. There is not a day that I don’t think about the mistake I made.”
Imagine the anguish she knew and the pain that followed. In some way it poisoned her life ever after—even after forgiveness may have been grasped. Premarital sex among Christian youth is the source of enormous beneath-the-surface pain. Says one devout psychologist: “Fornication causes more suffering in
God took pains to talk about it in the Bible. Enclosed in the heart of His holy law is the New Covenant promise to all who believe His Good News in the Preamble to the Ten Commandments, a promise that says: “You will not commit adultery” (Ex. 20:14, sex with anyone not already one’s lawfully wedded spouse). Any pre-marital teen is already someone’s spouse in God’s loving foreknowledge; see Gen. 24:14, 16; Pr. 6:29 (sexual titillation is not God’s ideal for teen recreation); 22:14; 1 Cor. 6:18, 19.
But sexual license is mankind’s obsession. Sir Julian Huxley admitted it was the driving force behind evolution: “I suppose the reason we leaped at The Origin of Species is because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.” Aldous Huxley: “The liberation we desired was ... from a certain system of morality.” Hence the enormous popularity of evolution.
How can teens be blessed for time and for eternity? Instilling fear is not the answer. There is an often undiscerned truth in “Christ and Him crucified” that is powerful: “The love [agape] of Christ constraineth us ... that they which live should not [cannot!] live unto themselves [to self], but unto Him which died for them and rose again” (2 Cor. 5:14, 15, KJV). There is power.
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