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| Safe sex? It's called marriage. -God Marriage is to be honored by all, the husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. -Hebrews 13:4 In Sin, Sex, and Self-Control, Norman Vincent peale writes: 'Martha took the kids away to the mountains for a month, so I was a summer bachelor. And about midway through that month, I met a girl, a beautiful girl looking for excitement. She made it clear that I had a green light... so for one weekend I put my conscience in mothballs and arranged a meeting for her Saturday night.' Peale said that he woke up Saturday morning, put on his swimming trunks, and took a walk on the beach to clear his head. As he walked, a strange thing began to happen. He said, 'I felt as if I were outside myself, looking at myself through a kind of fog that was gradually clearing. And suddenly I knew that what I had been planning for that evening was so wrong, so out of key with my standards and my loyalties and the innermost me that it was out of the question.' He canceled the date. God's commandments have come to be viewed as stone tablets filled with restrictions on our fun. In truth, they were given to protect, rather than prohibit, our happiness. God wants you to be truly safe... safe to enjoy a happy and fulfilled life. |
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