Commandment 7 is a group that supports the belief that true love waits. It is a thought of mind, a way of life, a movement, an act, a promise to yourself and to God to make a commitment of not having sex until you are married. In this promise is also the promise of living a sexual pure life.
Sexual purity includes abstaining from intercourse until marriage, but that is not all that it means. By Jesus' definition in Matthew 5:27-28, being sexually pure means not even dwelling on thoughts of sex with someone other than a spouse.
Until you are married, sexual purity means saying no to sexual intercourse, oral sex, and even sexual touching. It means saying no to a physical relationship that causes you to be "turned on" sexually. It means not looking at pornography or pictures that feed sexual thoughts.
Sexual purity does not end with marriage. Marriage partners are supposed to experience sexual love with each other in a way that is fulfilling to both. However, purity means being completely faithful to your spouse in thought and deed. "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral" (Heb. 13:4).
Sex is not a bad thing. God designed us as sexual beings. He invented sex! He also made a place for it--marriage. In Genesis 2:24 God tells of His plan for marriage, that "a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh." The sexual relationship makes the two become one flesh. The Bible speaks of sexual immorality, so there must also be such a thing as sexual morality, right? That morality is based on God's plan for sex.
Please start now and make the promise of sexual purity and to wait til marriage to have sex... you are worth it! You are worth the wait and so is your future husband/wife!
