“LIFE: Love & Lust; Purity & Holiness”



What is the real meaning of Love? There are different answers that we could encounter for that simple question. LOVE is being mistaken with the word LUST. People of today’s generation had misinterpreted the word Love as Lust.

Some are using love to have lust. People actually believe that love & lust goes hand and hand. They think that it’s normal to engaged themselves into pre-marital sex & other sexual immorality and the love that they have for each other will serve as there excuse. Which is not acceptable for the purpose of relationship is to glorify God. For God loves us so much that He is preparing our future partner while we’re busy with our Life. Everything is planned by God before we were born nothing is an accident. Everything that is happening to us good or bad is part of His plan for us. Sex is one of the precious, most exciting, pleasurable and a privilege that God has given to us, but it has certain requirement which is Marriage. Sex without marriage is not about love, it is lust. It is said in the bible that, “Love is patient”. That means it could wait. If we really love that person, we should wait for Gods time. At a certain time that God had set for us, everything would come into place.


Genesis 2:22-25

 “So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, He took one of the man's ribs, and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib, he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man." For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife was both naked, and they felt no shame.”

It is so true that there is someone who is destined to be the partner of everyone of His creation. It means that one should leave their parents & be united with their partner to become one flesh with the power of marriage. In the last verse, it says that Adam & Eve were both naked but they are not ashamed. It is because of the Purity and Holiness of their hearts. They are living life without anything to worry, there is no disease that they should be afraid of and they have a supply of everything that they might need in the Garden of Eden.


So people should start living in Purity and Holiness if they want to have a life like that of what Adam & Eve had before, and if we want to live with Christ in Heaven where He had prepared w0nderful things that we can’t possibly imagine. So we should stand firm for some would say that you must be crazy because it’s so outdated. Living in purity is just for the 16th Century. 


In Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'you must not eat of it, "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field. The sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

That kind of thing would also happen to us if we don’t do what pleases Him. Because of that disobedience we should work hard to feed our family and it also the reason having so much pain when women is giving birth, and the most important thing is that woman should obey his husband in any circumstances because she is the one whose been deceived. We can’t say that the wives and husbands have equal part in this world. Women can do whatever they want as long as you are not married because it is clearly stated by God that the man should be working and the wife should obey him. People should stop living in sinful life especially the youth. Some shouldn’t be ashamed of being teased, “The Last Virgins”. They should be proud indeed; for they can be like the others anytime they wanted to but those whose very proud of themselves they can’t go back at the very stage you are into. Be proud for “PURITY IS THE GREATEST GIFT THAT YOU CAN GIVE TO YOUR FUTURE PARTNER”. It is above all things like mansions, latest model of cell phones, cars & material stuffs. century. People would even question you like what the devil had done to Eva, he questioned the authority of God. “Did God really tell you not to eat the fruit of that tree?” And what happened when she got carried away and she can’t fight the urged of eating that tree. She disobeyed God and asked Adam to have some too. Then they realized that they were both naked and grabbed leaves of fig tree to cover themselves & when God is looking for them they won’t came out for they are ashamed that He might see that they are naked. God knew then what they did and He punished them.


We shouldn’t mess up continually, because the good news is there is a way to have your life back & start living in purity & holiness. That’s why there is a Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (BIBLE) that God has provided for us. He doesn’t want you to go the wrong way. He wanted our lives to have straight path to go. He is so great that He did everything just to have us back. He had suffered even more than we did for us. That is the true meaning of Love. Love is what God have for us from the beginning of all. Though we sinned against He made it possible to live with Him in Heaven through His son Jesus Christ. We can gain our purity through Jesus Christ, it is said in



 2 Corinthians 5:17
 “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” 

 John 14:6
 Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me.”

Psalm 37:4
 “Delight yourself also in the LORD; and He shall give you the desires of your heart.”

If only all people would accept Jesus Christ as their Savior and King. They would become new person and could start living in Purity and in Holiness that is pleasing to God. Then everything that they wanted would come into place if Jesus Christ is the Center of their lives.

We shouldn’t be thinking of what are the things we needed to do in order to have fruitful life because we had already the answers. It is not about what is life for you, it is about God. Then if we’re so fed up with this world. People are tired of doing every possible thing that they could do to prove that their lives were worth living. Don’t lose hope for god is waiting for you, 

Matthew 11:28-30
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Worry no more if you can’t meet the standards of this world because it is just a preparation for our life in Heaven.

 Hebrews 13:14
 “This world is the not our home; we are just looking forward to our everlasting home in heaven.”

Live life with awareness of the presence of God because Life without Him makes no sense.

>>>I wrote this 4 years ago, being inspired by the love of God. :)
This is actually based on the preaching of Ptr. Rodnel (february 2008).

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