Your daily dose of true beauty advice…
I don’t care how spiritual you are. I don’t care how mature you are. I don’t care how long you’ve walked with God. I don’t care how godly the other man is. I don’t care how loving your marriage is. Any woman can be the cause of the sexual, moral downfall of any man, and that means that we have got to continually guard our hearts and learn how to control our own bodies. You can’t control anybody else’s body, but we can control our own in holiness and in honor. This is the honorable way to live…
Not even a hint of sexual immorality—it means, women, that we cannot be flirtatious. I’ve heard a Christian counselor suggest that Christian women should flirt—not! When we are flirtatious, we are provoking, stimulating the potential for sexual sin.
Being pure means that
- we don’t use sexually explicit or coarse language.
- It means that we’re not entertained by entertainment that legitimizes sexual sin.
- Being morally pure means abstaining from physical contact, any physical contact that could possibly stimulate illegitimate, sexual desires or emotional intimacy and physical contact that could possibly stimulate in you or in that man illegitimate, sexual desires.
~Nancy Leigh DeMoss in “Practical Steps to Purity“
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