Today's society is replete
with powerful temptations. In America's society of the eighties, even parents
start talking about boyfriends for their daughters and girlfriends for
their sons. When they reach their teens, many parents even supply birth
control means to their children. An alarming percentage of teen-agers are
sexually active, even though they are not physiologically mature, and without
any moral limitations.
Millions of illicit pregnancies
and the tragedies associated with them, plus millions of tragic abortions,
happen every month in the USA.
Among the results of this
moral breakdown: unwanted and unsupported children, delinquent and irresponsible
fathers, criminals who have no regard for people's lives or properties,
millions of social
misfits, incurable genital
herpes, incurable genital warts, devastating syphilis and gonorrhea, dysplasia,
the killer AIDS, and new diseases never known before.
What most people do not know is that this moral breakdown costs them dearly throughout their lives. For the only law that rules the world is God's law, and these flagrant violations of God's law cost them a lot of misery and problems (20:124).
The true believers who care
about their children will advise them and remind them repeatedly and persistently
(20:132) to keep
their chastity. This means staying a virgin until their wedding night,
then
staying loyal to one's spouse
- never committing adultery - for their own happiness. God's advice to
keep our chastity, before and after marriage, is for our own good. God
is the one who controls our health, wealth, and happiness or misery (53:43,
48).
