Virginity and Purity...What's the difference?

Okay, so I stumbled upon an article dealing with these themes and while reading it I became inspired to define as to what many people in society confuse.

To say that one is a virgin doe not imply they are pure.
You can be a virgin as much as possible, but if you have impure thoughts, have impure intentions then you are not pure.
There is a difference.
Many people confuse these and combine both together.
To no longer be a virgin is to have sex and lose your virginity.
However if you do not directly have sex, but talk dirty, send inappropriate pictures, fantasize, lust and have impure thoughts you are not considered pure.
To be pure is something you are constantly working on.
To be pure means working towards purity every day. Choosing to be selfless over selfishness is pure. To serve someone out of the goodness of your heart because they are a brother or sister in Christ rather than to please them, is pure.
This does not have only to do with our sexual intentions but with any part of our life.
To think good of others rather than judge them, is pure.
To not be greedy, or selfish is pure.
To give and not expect something in return is pure.
As Christians were are called to have pure of heart and this is what it means.
Granted, this is not easy but it is what we are called to do.
To be pure of heart is greater than all the riches in the world we must strive for it daily and not settle for the minimum amount of work.

We must not allow virgins to think it is okay to continue to internally sin. If you are doing something to better benefit you, that is not pure intention.Give give give and love love love as Christ has endlessly loved us.

"Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God" Mt 5:8

To live is a grand thing.

To live is a grand thing. Something splendid. And many think that living means adventure. Many think living has to reach a specific standard that is unspoken among society.

Many thinking living is giving themselves away. Giving themselves away to one and all, so they do.

Living is simply being present in each moment and giving everything into every little thing so that you can say you gave it your all. Whether that be caring for little ones or climbing mountains. If your heart and soul are in it, who is to say that it is not living? 

We think in order to live life we must accomplish something grand. Well living in itself is grand. A beautiful gift. An accomplishment. Whose standards are you living by, yours or the world's?

Many believe that in order to live you must feel that you are living.

You will not always feel. Emotions are a blessing. Hold on dearly to them and recognize that you are experiencing something new but if no emotion comes to you, that does not make you invisible. Feelings come and go. They are unstable. Life is more than emotion.

So live, to your greatest potential. For it is a grand thing, to live.

The power of past tenses

I have loved you says the Lord|| Mal 1:2

He used past  tense-have loved- indicating he already did.  It was an action already performed. What does this mean? Should't he love us? In present form? Yes, yes he should and he does. His love is beyond past, present and future tense. It is never ending. What he means is that despite and during all our times when we were in darkness, all the times we betrayed him, offended him, hurt him; he loved us still. Through all the chaos we put ourselves through believing God was never there, in

reality we were pushing Him away- his love never ceased. Behind the have loved are all the times we chose sin instead of God. This is his power and love. So the Lord is a fighter.

 Imagine a battle scene and at the end of the battle, the bad guys have been defeated. Christ, our fighter, all wounded, bleeding, comes toward us,embraces us and says "I have loved you" -though you were the one that set the army before Him to fight he has at last reached you and you have let Him in. Stop fighting. Stop revisiting your past. He has loved you. 

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