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General Category => America and australia => Topic started by: GildaK471 on December 24, 2012, 11:01:02 AM
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The world you live in promotes sex as the answer to just about everything. The pressure to go along with the crowd is greater than ever before, and it's easy to compromise in little ways that are a lot more harmful than they seem. You and your friends may become caught up in destructive relationships or sexual activities without even knowing how you got there. You just want to be normal- to fit in, to be liked, to look attractive to the opposite sex. But are you paying too high a price?
Whether you have so far protected yourself emotionally and sexually, feel that you've been robbed of your purity, or have given in to temptation in some way, this book can help you achieve or reclaim sexual integrity. It can also guide you through the temptations and pressures of young adulthood while demonstrating how you can live your life to the fullest - without regrets.
Foreword
Have you ever become frustrated working through a maze in a puzzle book? The goal is to discover a pathway from the starting point to the end without crossing over any lines. However, the multitude of dead ends can make this a true test of your patience and concentration.
Imagine a giant maze the size of a football field. Suppose someone offers you a ten-thousand-dollar reward if you can successfully make your way from start to finish within four minutes. You are certainly motivated, but when you enter the maze, you find that you can't see anything but the nine-foot-high walls directly in front and on each side of you. There are no markers to direct your path, and you have no way of discerning when a dead end is right around the corner. Your chances of victory are next to impossible. You need the help of a trusted advisor who is more familiar with this maze than you are.
If my daughter asked me to help her with such a challenge, do you know what I would do? I'd get a forty-foot ladder and two cell phones. I'd give one phone to her and carry the other with me to the top of the ladder where I'd have an aerial view of the maze. Then I'd call her to give guidance from above. I could warn her when she follows a dead end path, and I would tell her when to turn right and when to turn left.
Now let me ask you this: Would my daughter choose to disregard my instructions and attempt to trust her own sense of direction in that giant maze? Of course not. She would listen carefully to my every word, because she knows that I can see things ahead that she can't, that I am worthy of her trust, and that I love her and want her to succeed.
All young people face a similar challenge, only the prize is much greater than a measly ten thousand dollars. The prize is the health, happiness, peace, and contentment that come from saving yourself for marriage, choosing a good mate, and bringing beautiful children into the world. I have four such children, and after thirty years of being a husband and a dad, I can honestly tell you that nothing on this side of heaven brings me greater joy than my family. You're probably one of the 93 percent of teenagers who expect to marry someday and the 91 percent who hope to have children. If so, please know that your entire future, including your ability to have a successful marriage and your own children someday, is made up of one decision after another. You may not always have the foresight to know where each decision will lead you.
Proverbs 14:12 says, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." All over the world, young people are making wrong decisions that seem right to them. Whether it's the movies they watch or the lies they tell their parents or how far they're willing to go on a date, many young people think, It's no big deal... Everybody does it... It feels right to me. They can't tell the difference between right and wrong, because they have no moral compass to direct them in the path of absolute truth.