You Are Worth The Wait

This weekend my church youth group is having Disciple Now, otherwise known as DNow, which is a camp-like event held over a weekend.  All the students are separated by grade, and we have Bible studies with our group over a specific theme.  This year's theme is "True Love Waits."  "True Love Waits" is a study written by Dr. Richard Ross about having a life of purity.  In this study he stresses the importance of sexual purity, hence the name "True Love Waits."  He is referring to waiting for marriage to have sex.  I have grown up in the church, and I have and always will believe that God wants all people to abstain from sex until marriage.  When I get married one day, I will be the happiest man in the world if I can tell my wife she is the first person I will have sex with and she can say the same to me.  God made sex a good thing, and man corrupted it.  It was made for reproduction so we could inhabit the Earth like God told us to.

Like I said, I have believed this my whole life; I have believed in the promise to stay sexually pure.  This promise was a promise to myself, my future spouse, and most importantly to God, so I had to be reminded daily.  My older brother had gone to a "purity" event when he was in our church's youth group kind of like the "True Love Waits" study, and he had gotten a purity ring.  A purity ring is a ring you wear on your wedding ring finger, and when you get married, you give the ring to your spouse.  It represents your promise to them, and that you have kept that promise for them.  Giving them the ring symbolizes giving them your purity when you're married.  My sophomore year I decided to get a purity ring to remind me.  The ring I ended up buying was online, and it says purity all around it.  One of my favorite things about it though, is what is on the inside of the band.  It is the biggest reminder to stay pure.  Written is, "You are worth the wait."  Every time I see that phrase, I am reminded that my future spouse is worth waiting for.

I also went through a study with some of my close friends called "Every Young Man's Battle" that year.  I cannot wait for this weekend now; to go through a study on purity.  Our church's pastor is leading my group.  I hope to enjoy this weekend, and then after, I plan to lead a study with "Every Young Man's Battle" myself with some guys in my youth group.  God works in great ways, and I know in the near future some great things will be happening!