DON'T BE CARELESS WITH YOUR GLORY!

    It is not so often that I notice youths that are in their right minds, for we youths of nowadays don't realize exactly the glory we carry in our bodies. Many of us have misplaced our true glory for academic qualifications, good employment opportunities, mansions, and exotic cars to mention but a few. And we have traded our true glory for all of these.

   However, while that may sound so elegant and befitting to have all of that at our possession at any cost, they cannot stand the place of godliness, moral uprightness and dignity.

   If it is possible to take a survey of youths all around the globe who are still in their virginity, you would agree with me that the percentage would obviously be at the bearest minimum, and unfortunately the society is not doing anything to curb the menace and discourage the reccurrence of the socio-vises.

   Of course, our society has lost focus and value for moral integrity, and celebrate shame and reproach at a very high cost. However, as much as it may not attract much importance to us today, it still remain very important and the standard of God for a godly marriage.

   I've met several young ladies especially, who told me the sad tale of their lives, and how men out there abused them sexually and short changed their destinies, due to lack of consciousness of their sexual integrity, and today were trailing a wrong path indefinitely from the glorious one their parents and the church of God set for them.

   Not only that, there is another very unfortunate but rampant misconception and mischievous attitude I observe today, and that is youth engaging in extra marital relationship, popularly known as man and woman friends, even among ministers of God. And this has to do with sexual affairs too, it is evil of highest premium!

   Nevertheless, I want to use this opportunity to engrave this on the tablet of the heart of our young ladies who are still in their right senses and not deflow ered yet, never to allow a man to undress them, regardless of how far they might have gone in their relationship, until the man has taken them to the altar.

   Experience has informed me, that, a relationship does not yet guarantee marriage, even after introduction of the two parties to their parents: wait until the night of your wedding.! Otherwise, you may end-up a rubbish thrown into the waste bag for men of nowadays. Majority of us are yet to be dealt with by God to walk in His fear and keep our promise.

  Please, for the sake of those that have fallen a victim of sexual abuse, let's encourage the up-coming generation to hold their sexual character in high esteem! What honour and glory is it, inspite of all the beauty, and world's glamour, if a woman becomes second hand commodity in the hand of a man? What about those that have satisfied their lustful desire over her and abuse her womanhood? Think about it!

   I am not trying to rule out the place of some unavoidable occasion and mistakes that sometimes lure some into that state, neither am I undermining the place of repentance, and the work of redemption, but let's not turn it to a normal thing. It is abnormal and ignoble indeed.! Let's discourage this act at the level of simple courtesy and social norm and consciousness, without necessarily bothering to go into religious or spiritual point of view.

   Moral consciousness and sexual integrity has been a social norm and pride in some years past, and is still obtainable till now. Nothing whatsoever makes it obsolete or primitive if our society would set her priority right.

Dating and courting does not include sexual impurity, let's be mindful of our dear life and future.

   Experienced individuals can tell what this has brought on them, but while they can't correct what has happened, them can help the younger ones who have not enter into the trap.

   My warning goes to men especially, the condition of our society today is not far from what we are exhibiting and displaying in our individual privacies and homes, don't endanger your dear life and destiny. The greatest covenant any man can exhibit is in sexual relationship, and it begins from oral form to the very act of anal relationship. Don't promise a woman love when you are not in your right mind to stand by your word. Don't sue for undue and avoidable problem for yourself! Never destroy a life and break a heart to simplify your own, it doesn't work like that.
I wish you a happy weekend and God's blessings, as you ruminate over the word in Jesus name.
  Good morning.