Sex and the Single Christian Girl

God’s Best is Worth Fighting For

Purity begins with Identity. Ellis continues: Sexual purity springs forth from a woman’s heart when she knows and believes that she is cherished. The word “love” has lost its meaning in our culture. The word cherish, on the other hand, still has weight. It stands apart as a word picture of true love in action. To cherish something is to hold it in honor and to place high value upon it. Cherish is love wearing work boots. This love is not the run-of-the-mill emotional love of chick-flick lore, but the love that seeks the best for the other, the covenant-keeping love that puts work behind the words. This is the high and holy calling that the Lord God places on a man who would be entrusted with one of His daughters.

God’s Best is Worth Fighting For

Good Intentions Aren’t Good Enough. Upon meeting a girl who had pledged to remain sexually pure until marriage and who had forsaken her pledge, Ellis recalls thinking, “Good intentions are not good enough. The spiritual battle over sexual purity is real. Her purity ring did not protect her from the lies and the insecurities. For all of the talk and ceremony of purity, she was not aware of the ugliness and the covert tactics waged by a truly evil Enemy. When facing waves of temptation, she finally succumbed to the lie that said. ‘Everyone is doing it.’ She slipped her purity ring off and placed it on his bedside table.”