Purity

Today's Scripture:
How can a young person live a pure life? By obeying your word.

Psalm 119:9

The potter's wheel is spinning. You feel the pot begin to take shape between your thumb and fingers, just as your art teacher said it would. The lump of formless clay is starting to look like something useful and beautiful. The soft smoothness of the clay feels good to your fingers. But then something hard brushes against your thumb. A split second later, on the next rotation, you feel it again, a little more solid, and then again. Before you realize what has happened, a pebble embedded in the clay has ripped through the wall of your pot and left it a crumpled mess.

Impurity embedded in your life can have a similar effect. To keep your heart and mind clean means that you make a concentrated effort to avoid dwelling on sexual, violent, or evil thoughts. Purity means making a commitment to refrain from having sex until you are married. It means accepting responsibility for checking television shows, videos, video games, and music in plenty of time to make a clear choice before exposing or repeated exposing yourself. Purity is a continuing, daily process.

And it's not just a matter of keeping bad things out. Purity is also about filling your heart and mind with good things. Reading the Bible daily will trigger good choices about the things you do, the things you watch, the things you listen to, and the things that you say. As I heard my daughter share in a message at our youth and young at heart "Words can hurt". Making this commitment is how you can succeed at living a life of purity. You are being shaped into something useful and beautiful. Don't let impurity spoil it.

Selah people' and friends examine what is in your bedroom, dorm room or home. Are there CDs, magazines, books, video games or DVDs that don't reflect God's idea of clean living? Maybe it is time to clean your room in a new way and thus clean your heart and open yourself up to a life of purity and life committed to Christ.

"Peace and purity be with you as you clean not only your home but also your heart."

Your pastor,

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