I know the subject is of the past 4 days is not popular. It is the opposite message that you get from most media, including TV and movies.
But most media, TV, and movies don’t speak for God; the Bible does!
Earlier in the week I received this private message and thought I would share it with the writer’s permission.

I have to say that your “Morning Thought” is really what I need to hear and I will be reading the continued part tomorrow.
I have been with the same man for 4 years now and he proposed to me in October; of course I said yes.
I don’t let him stay the night or engage in certain activities. I am blessed he has not left me yet. The problem I have I guess you can say is “commitment”.
I watched both of my parent’s divorce and both remarried and divorced again, then were engaged to one another again right before my father passed.
My daughter’s father has completely lost touch with her because he is in and out of prison.
I guess what I am trying to say, some people are scared, as I am.
I continue to pray about this situation. I just want my marriage to last FOREVER.
My daughter calls her step-dad, Daddy, and her real dad by his first name.
This man is everything I have asked for, but still I have that “what if”.
I think all the time something is wrong with my thinking.
I believe there are others in my shoes.
But I will tell you the reason why I don’t let him spend the night, or engage in certain activities; it’s because I have a daughter that is 11.
I had her out of wedlock and now I am trying my best to raise her as a respected young lady.
How can I let a man sleep in my bed or on my couch and tell her it’s wrong?
How can tell her not to engage in certain activities if I am doing them myself?
She is at the age where I am teaching how important it is to save yourself for marriage and don’t make a decision that can change the rest of your life.
I feel that if I am doing those things myself how can I tell her it’s wrong?

One part that really caught my attention is “I don’t let him stay the night or engage in certain activities. I am blessed he has not left me yet.”
I think this is on the mind of many young women these days; the thought that the only way to keep a man is to engage in physical intimacy with him.
Having been a young man myself once I’ll admit that physical intimacy is on the mind of just about every young man.
It is not the young man that is in control of the intimacy, but the young lady. All she has to do is say, “No!” If he persists then it can become a crime.
Many young ladies are not saying no, for fear of losing him.
What most young ladies are looking for is love; what most young men are looking for is sex.
I heard a minister say once that a young woman will give sex in hopes of getting love and a young man will say he loves a young woman in hopes of getting sex.
While this is not always the case it is a fact.
Paul told the young minister, Timothy, to treat the younger women as sisters, with all purity. 1 Tim 5:2
For some that may seem archaic and outdated. Some may say that times have changed.
Yes, times have changed but God has not; For I am the Lord, I do not change; Mal 3:6
For the young ladies I will leave you with this thought – don’t settle for a man you can live with; find a man you cannot live without!
Find someone who will respect you and respect you without taking your virtue and purity.
For the young men I say to respect the young women and yourself. The bond between a man and woman is a God given gift to you but only in marriage; Gen 2:24 – Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. What God has given to you is special and should only be shared with someone special.
Young men! Become a protector of the ladies not an exploiter of them!
For both young women and men I say the day will come when you may have a daughter or son and you will want to teach them purity just like the mom that wrote me.
I will also remind you that physical intimacy outside of marriage is sin!
Finally (and most important) is salvation. If you are saved find a mate that is also. Make God a main part of your home.
Eccl 4:12 – A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.
Make God that third braid!