Sexual Purity - A Lesson for a Friend

This entry is a little different than the last ones, and is directed at one of my friends. I hope that she finds this and reads it.
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So far this week has been alright. Besides from me getting new running shoes (which are super awesome, but heavy!) and other things like that, I've found myself in a position I didn't think I'd be in: someone's conscience.
Do you remember the cartoons (or if you're some of my friends, you still watch them) where a character is trying to decided between a good decision and a bad decision. Suddenly... POOF! A little devil appears on the character's shoulder. He begins whispering in his ear why he should make the bad decision. POOF! The little angel appears on the other shoulder and whispers in the other ear. It's an argument back and forth until the character makes the good decision.
Well, Monday night I was that little angel, I think. Let me explain.
One of my friends (whose name will NOT be mentioned, but she is a girl) myspace messaged me Monday evening. She says one of her guy friends wants to have sex with her, and she doesn't know what to do. She says she wants to, but is afraid of becoming pregnant. She asked ME what she should do.
Whoa. Talk about PRESSURE! She is what I'd call a lukewarm Christian. She believes in God, goes to church, etc. But her lifestyle doesn't really show it.
Now, she gave me the opportunity to give her advice. There are two ways to advise someone for me. I can either use the Bible, or use logic from a Biblical Worldview. Rather than thump her on the head with a Bible and throw verses at her, possibly annoying her, I took an alternative route. Here is what I pointed out:
*Studies show that over 25% of U.S. Teens have at least one STD
* Protection doesn't always work, and failure can lead to disasterous and life ruining consequences
*Many teenage girls who become pregnant consider suicide
*It is very hard to obtain a job as a teenage girl if you are pregnant
*Most of the guys who will impregnate you will NOT support you during and after your pregnancy
Now, aside from the facts, here is the other things I pointed out to her. Right now, at this age, it is hard to see the future. But, it is easy to know that giving yourself away to someone else is horrible. U.S. Adults who have had sex BEFORE marriage and married a different person say that their spouse is disappointed in them. Some even say the "right one" refused to marry them because of the fact that they were impure. Most adults in america who have sex with people other than their spouse are usually depressed and never find fulfillment.
Saving yourself for marriage is a very important thing to do.
Now, here is the rest of my "sermon". It's Bible time!

*1 Corinthians 6:15-16, "Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

*Mark 10:6-9, "But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.' 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

*Romans 8:12-15, "Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father."

*1 Corinthians 7:1-2, "Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry. But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband."

*Hebrews 13:4, "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral."

*1 Timothy 5:1-2, "Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity."

These verses show how being pure is a thing to strive for. In today's world, it is VERY rare, but something to be cherrished.
I hope and pray that my friend takes my advice. After talking with her, she says she is going to try very hard to take my advice, and will keep my posted. I think she will stay true to herself and true to God. I'm praying that she will.

Job 31:1, "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl."