Your boyfriend wants a baby and you're not sure? Are you willing to carry a baby through your teens and finish high school all on not so sure? I would listen to your concience Ashley. God's trying to tell you to wait. He's pleading with your heart to tell you, "wait until your married".
I'm sorry, but I disagree.....Yes, I expect teens to wait and remain abstinent. It's the RIGHT thing to do. It IS NOT unreal to expect better out of them....I'm hoping that they rise to the bar that I've lifted. If people don't expect better out of young teens, and tell them so.....where will there ever be a challenge for them to be something better???? Something the world desperately needs is for teens to be better than what we've allowed them to become.
I will not lower the bar on standards with regards to pre-marital and teen sex. No matter who I offend. I will not say, "Oh well, it's a hopeless cause. It's alright....just go ahead and have sex, and I'll have to wash my hands of the whole thing and look the other way."
Sorry, that won't come from me. Because I've witnessed the other side of morality in teens and I KNOW that teens can do it!! Where they are still virgin and proud of the fact that they are hopeful for a future marriage with one partner..where they respect the opposite sex and understand that unless they are of age to make a marriage committment, then there is no sexual relationship, or for that matter frivilous dating. They pray to resist temptation....and replace that desire for healthier activity. Sports, music, christian prayer groups, and doing things with groups of friends who also respect waiting until marriage. Friends remaining friends until there is a definate connection between a young man and woman who are sure, they are meant to be together. THEN, and only then do they make a committment of marriage to one another and continue abstinence until their wedding night. This is not imaginary.....this is true christian virtue among a LOT, not a few...A LOT of teens!!
It's not unreal....it's just foreign to society as we know it today. How will teens ever know how it's suppose to really be if no one will raise the bar on them and tell them. How will they ever learn that they are worth more, their body's are worth more as well as their purity.....than to just give it away to everyone who thinks they're beautiful. What will be left of that precious gift God gave each one of you, that should be left for your lifetime partner? It is how marriage and having babies was intended to be. It is what's NOT being taught in the homes in the world today....it's not being taught in school at all....Just contraception....because we know you teens are out there having sex!!!
I know teens who aren't, and from the sounds of it......you don't seem to want to be part of the crowd who are. It's your choice to stop this way of living and choose a healthier one. But you can never say that no one ever taught you how it's suppose to be....No one ever tried to guide you down the narrow path, the road less taken....the one towards God and a life of abstinence until marriage.
Ashley, I've just raised the bar on you....and I know you can do it. I hear it in your words.
May God give you the courage to live a life of abstinence and virtue from this moment on and encourage others to do the same.
May he watch over you as you go about your day and protect you from all temptation.
God bless,
myangelsinheaven
