my heart’s on fire!

I was poking around on my church’s website yesterday, and I came across an awesome analogy on purity. It’s been rocking my world:

“The idea of caution tape, a weak little piece of plastic just seems lame right? Go to a rock concert, it keeps mobs in certain areas. Go to a crime scene, the public dare not cross it. Go to a construction site, grown men know better than to pass under or through that tape! We must begin to mark off boundaries in our lives, so to effectively keep us away from the enemies slick schemes. Once they are in place, we must not cross them!”

This ultimately drives home the point that I love to make. When we keep ourselves so far removed from sexual temptation, we aren’t even tempted to be tempted.

This brings me to the second and third parts of this post.

I know that it’s God’s plan for us to stay pure all our lives.

And I know that when we are in God’s plan, it is because of the Spirit’s work in our lives.

And I know that when the Spirit is at work, there is incredible freedom.(2 Cor 3:17)

And lastly, I know there is freedom because I am living it.  Simply put, God keep blowing me away with the freedom he’s giving me in my dating relationship.

I am so pumped for whatever my life holds ahead of this, and I am pumped to encourage every one of my readers to strive for the same high standards.