Youths: Being Sexually Pure in a Sexually Explicit World...How?

Sexual immorality is one of the easiest sins to fall into and it can be enslaving too because it is quite difficult to break off from once you give in to it.Knowing that we are in a world full of sexual temptations and distractions, how can we overcome it? There's only one thing to do: Don't wait to be tempted. Take off! Flee! Like Joseph, run for your life!
If you have a heart that wants to please God and you ask if it's possible to remain sexually pure in a world that is now 100% sexually explicit, my answer is it's very possible. By human effort, no, but with God all things are possible. Job must have faced the same challenge so he said in Job 31:1,"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman". And that covenant of purity kept him. Before I entered the University, I made a decision to remain sexually pure even in the face of temptations that the University life will present.I used 1 Cor 6:19 as an anchor, "Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself.." and I tell you, that word kept me even though I was naive and not yet baptized in the Holy Spirit as at that time. I saw myself in vulnerable situations severally, especially in my first year where there were guys who were ready to take advantage of naive freshers like me, but each time that scripture cropped up in my spirit to remind me of my covenant and to keep me. But when I became baptized in the Holy Spirit few months later, He made me stronger. So start by making a personal decision to remain sexually pure and back it up with God's Word. Make a covenant with God that you want to remain sexually pure, and by God's grace, you will. As a youth, this is the time when sexual curiosity is at its highest peak. Surround yourself with friends who desire to be sexually pure just like you. Because when you mingle with people who talk nothing but just sex, your thoughts and imaginations will mostly be sexual and it is only a matter of time before you bodily engage in it.

Sexual immorality has brought down even the strongest of men, so don't tempt yourself no matter how spiritually mature you claim to be. "She has cast down so many wounded and all who were slain by her were strong men." (Pro 7:26). Beware and keep focus. Don't think about it, fill your thoughts with God's Word. 'Remove your way far from her; do not go near the door of her house' Pro 5:8. Unlike a certain young man in Pro 7:8, who ventured close to the house of the prostitute, you should steer clear of everything that sexually defiles . It could be a movie,a novel, a friend. Don't look to the right or to the left but let your gaze be ever before you.(Pro 4: 25-27). With a heart thirsting for and trusting in God, ever searching the Scriptures , God is able to keep us sexually pure.