Why does TRUE LOVE WAIT?
And this is an important question for us to deal with because the truth is, as parents and pastors and leaders and teachers…we have NOT failed to lay down the law to WAIT until marriage. But many of us HAVE failed to tell our youth WHY and without solid reasons WHY they should wait, many teens will not! And one thing we must do to help them keep the pledge they have made is to remind them that behind every negative command in the Bible-even this one-there are two loving motivations. One is to PROTECT us and the other is to PROVIDE for us. In short, God has given us all of His laws because He has our best interests at heart! God is not some cosmic killjoy! To the contrary He has given us His laws to insure our maximum joy! In fact, seeing God’s protective boundaries as limitations to our fun is like a goldfish thinking of the fish bowl as a limitation to his fun. You see, for our safety and provision God has lovingly given us boundaries when it comes to sex so He has designed it such
