Do you have a fence around your yard? Why have a fence? There are some obvious answers:
- To keep bad things/people OUT
- To keep precious things/people IN
- To keep our dogs from running away and mauling people or becoming roadkill!
We're glad certain places have fences...places like prisons, power plants and zoos!
Fences are used to mark boundaries. We can look at God's commands in Scripture like fences that draw boundaries for us.
God has placed one of those fences around SEX. God designed sex to be an incredible act of intimacy between a husband and a wife. Any sexual activity outside of that fence is out of bounds.
And God did this for a reason. He loves us and wants the best for us. He wants to keep us close to Him. He wants to protect us from running off and doing something we are not ready to handle.
The Bible says we should "run away from sexual immorality..." (1 Corinthians 6:18-20).
The reality is...sex is everywhere. Our world is kicking down the fences God has put in place. So it's that much harder for a middle school student (or adults for that matter) to stay pure.
We need to understand God's heart. The fence is there for our protection. To keep us from running away from Him and getting hurt.
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