As a teenager it can be very hard to understand some things the bible says. I  know I have many questions when it comes to 3 key topics.

• Sex *pausing for uncomfortable and nervous giggles*.
• Marriage
• Being single

      12 "Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"--but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.   


        Sex the only word that can make a teenager flee faster than if they were being chased by a flesh eating monster. Obviously as you just read in the following passage from 1 Corinthians you should not be sexual immoral. But what exactly does that mean? What if I screw up? Will God still love me? But I have faith that as Christian children we have an advantage to knowing there's a greater love then that. A great person we can be one body with who will show us the truth and we can live with for  eternity in heaven. The one who never stops loving us. 


Now American culture is a whole other story. There are kids who are having sex at only 12 years old! People are saying it's normal to experiment with porn. If that's the case then why not experiment with drugs? Or hey here's a beer why don't you go ahead hop in the car go for a little drive while your at it!? Seriously culture is saying sex is ok. If you love each other you can have sex its ok. They also say being gay is ok. But as Christians we know that's not the case.

To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.  11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

The majority of things I have questions about has to deal with divorce. Obviously if a man was beating on his wife she could leave him. Right? You are supposed to work it out if you can. But what if they cheat on you again and again and again? What happens then?

As Christians we get divorced as a last resort. But in American culture we have people getting divorced with the claim that they "fell out of love" or that they "married the wrong person".  Here is a very clear difference between Christians and non-Christians. But it is far from the only difference.

Sometimes I wish everyone were single like me—a simpler life in many ways! But celibacy is not for everyone any more than marriage is. God gives the gift of the single life to some, the gift of the married life to others.

^8-9 I do, though, tell the unmarried and widows that singleness might well be the best thing for them, as it has been for me. But if they can’t manage their desires and emotions, they should by all means go ahead and get married. The difficulties of marriage are preferable by far to a sexually tortured life as a single.




As Christians we believe it is fine to be single just as Paul says. But culture today says your weird if you don't date when your a teenager. They act like its taboo. I once walked up and was talking to a girl who looked around my age and when I told her I didn't have a boyfriend and I've  never been on an actual date she looked at me like I had 2 heads but I didn't care I know that being single for now until I find the right person to try to date is fine.

                                                       

Now as a closing I'd like to show how these three key topics are related....






Sex is something intimate that as Christian we wait to have when the time comes for Marriage.
Marriage is when we find the right person and will never be Single again.