One of the defining
attributes of a godly daughter is her purity. God desires daughters to be
unstained by the world. This requires that they have hearts that are pure so
that what flows from their hearts; their words, glances, the clothes they wear,
their hairstyle, the respect they give, all reveal a deep inner purity.
As
we think about our daughters, it is easy for us to grasp the truth that God
requires chastity. We can all understand that God desires our daughters to be
virgins and to have carnal knowledge of only one man, their own husband. We
fathers particularly understand this as we seek to protect the honor and purity
of our daughters, saving them for that one man.
But
we need to understand that this is not only true of our daughters. God requires
our sons, our wives and ourselves to possess this deep inner purity and beauty.
He desires that we have chaste hearts and minds and therefore live faithful
chaste lives.
We
got a restart when we came to saving faith in Jesus Christ. God forgave us,
making us pure and blameless. Like the woman at the well who had five husbands
or the woman caught in adultery, Jesus forgave us and told us to go and sin no
more.
We should grasp these two things. One, Jesus forgives us so that we can
be pure in heart and body once again. And two, we must put aside those sins
which so easily entangle us, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes.
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