KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Robber
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE need to be taught that they are someone's "special," someone's future husband or wife...
Accordingly, they are to keep themselves for that special someone. When a person defiles another of their virginity, that person has taken that which was another's, that which was not rightfully his or hers; and, consequently becomes a robber!
Our young people must be taught to guard their purity with unrelenting, jealous vigilance, keeping themselves pure, lovely and unhandled. They must not let another rob them. Then, when that special someone comes along, they can mutually speak those magic words, "I do" that will make them one (Matt. 19:3-9). Then, and only then, they can give themselves to each other unreservedly. To pursue any other course is fornication (1 Cor. 6:15-20; Gal. 5:19-21). (Wendell Winkler, deceased)
KneEmail: "For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is that avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified" (1 Thess. 4:3-6).