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Crucial moral battles are being fought in our culture. The average young person experiences many pressures in the formation of personal sexual standards and behavior.

The fact that some standards must be chosen cannot be ignored. Sex is here to stay, and it remains a very basic force in our lives. We cannot ignore its presence nay more than we can ignore other ordinary human drives.

Each of us needs to think through the implications of sexual alternatives and choose a personal sexual ethic based on intellectual and Biblical factors, not merely biological, emotional, or social ones.

The biblical standard that puts sex within the fidelity and security of marriage is the most responsible code that has ever been developed. You are justified in following it without apology as the best standard for protecting human, moral, and Christian values that has been devised.

Some reading this may have already had sexual experience outside of marriage. The data we have discussed is not intended to condemn or produce guilt.

The good news is that Jesus Christ came for the expressed purpose of forgiving our sins, sexual and all other. Jesus, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever, will forgive us. The real question now is, what shall we do with the future? Christ can cleanse the past, but He expects us to respond to the light He gives us. Hopefully this discussion will help you strengthen your convictions with regard to sexual decisions and behavior in the days ahead. As the adage says, today is the first day of the rest of your life. More on the topic...

Today, suicide has become an alternative choice for relief of one's pain and suffering. It is trendy for the youth as well as the old to use some form of suicide to exit this life. For someone to even consider this means of losing their life it usually means they have lost all hope, it is the last resort. When one has no hope does not know God or have faith, suicide becomes one of the greatest acts of selfishness. For by doing this the individual fulfills his own desires and his own will, ignoring the catastrophic effects it has on others. One is so depressed and engrossed in their own hopelessness that they are not aware of how it affects their loved ones. So it is an end to suffering for themselves but for others it is only beginning.

Essentially it is God who is the giver and taker of life. Any time we make the choice in this matter we are saying that we want control over our lives. God is able to give us peace that passes all our understanding through any problem or trial. It is God one needs to seek, not a way out by death.

Many commit suicide as an alternative to pain believing that they can end their unbearable suffering they experience in their life. Fear of life, guilty conscience is tools of the enemy to overwhelm someone. They become wounded unable to cope and from there depression sets in. It is sin that is the enemy of all and it does not care who it ravages "Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death" (James 1:15). David said oh happy is the man whose sins are forgiven. Many times being overwhelmed with guilt brings depression that can lead to one taking their life.

"For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness. Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, bound in affliction and irons--Because they rebelled against the words of God, and despised the counsel of the Most High. Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help. Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces. Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!" (Ps. 107:9-15) More on the topic...

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