It's a gradual process, happens to all of us.
We can try, but we can hardly avoid it. Even Disney movies, when you are little they seem fine, you get older, and realize how much went over your head. But it was still being fed subliminally to us when little, sure maybe the outright innuendo's, but I'm talking about other messages. Messages that happen in every princess story, the girl constantly daydreaming about her princes, the kiss, the kiss that doesn't need to wait for marriage, the kiss that seals the happy ending, before life has even begun.The physical lust that is granted and makes it all alright. Radio songs blast the theme all the time "If it feels good, it must be right". Commercials encourage us to buy products that will make us seductive, showing images of seductive people to prove the point. Clothing stores display images of scantily clad woman and buffed up men with pants riding low. News stories are full of "who did who" from sport players, to politicians, to the stereo-typical Hollywood drama. Pick up a seemingly innocent magazine and accidentally read the wrong ad, you discover something you didn't know before, something now burned into your memory, a piece of information you didn't need to know, and now can never forget. Glance at a newspaper, take a walk on the beach, speed down the highway and glance at a billboard, go to the movies, turn on the radio. Unless you can live your life with your eyes and ears closed, you can't avoid being inundated with the messages of lust fulfilled =
happiness gained. You walk through life losing purity from unintentional exposure.
Back to my point on the Disney movies, adding to it any "Christian" love story.Such a little thing you say, such a little thing. It's just a kiss. If there's one thing I've learned thus far it's that sin begets sin. No, I'm not walking a slippery slope, I'm stating what should be a well known fact to all Christians. What desire is it that a kiss satisfies? What is it that we enjoy about the kiss, what is it that it satisfies that makes us think it should be okay to engage in before marriage? What does a kiss start you thinking about?
It's not just the world that expects it,forces it upon us, the tainting of the world's beauty, the questioning of an absolute. It's fellow "Christians" that believe we are "sheltered" and need to be "informed" so that we can better "witness" to people in this world. We are told that if we don't know about the sin that goes on in this world, we won't know how to help someone who comes to us struggling with a particular sin problem. We are told that there is such a thing as "Being so heavenly minded they were of no earthly good". Seemingly we are encouraged to laugh at crass jokes or innuendo's.Do we ever stand up and tell people that they need to stop having silly relationships that callus their hearts and pull their minds from Christ? Sometimes we do it to each other without realizing it, asking little 3 yr. old "Tommy" if cute "Christina" from daycare is his girlfriend.
Fellow Sisters and Brothers, why do we do this to each other? Girls why do we dress to please the men? Guys why do you chase after us with no intention of catching us when we fall? Fathers it's awkward, but teach your daughters how to dress, and your sons how to act. Love your daughters so they don't seek after the approval of another pre-maturely. Mothers can you not set an example for us? Help our fathers with our dressing, teach us how to protect our hearts.
We cannot do this on our own, protecting our purity requires the effort of the whole church, shielding each other, watching our lips. Encouraging one another to think upon wholesome things. We should be helping each other swim AGAINST the current, not with it.
