The goal is not to figure out a way to avoid pain. The goal is obedience and to submit our rebellious nature to the Lord.

Compromise is the subtle practice of ever so slightly moving God’s boundaries. If it were a grand and obvious act of initial rebellion we might perceive the path before us. Instead we gradually compromise and permit sexual temptations to encamp and eventually move into our lives.  Compromise does not beget nor produce integrity. Compromise produces more compromise and the next generation continues where we left off and before long we have completely forsaken God’s precepts.

Pursuing holiness and sexual purity each day is difficult to perform in a land which promotes self-reliance and the hedonistic pursuit of happiness. We need His word and Spirit to direct each step of the way. We need fellow travelers to encourage and challenge us when the journey becomes overwhelming.