I've lost count of how many times in my life I've had
well-meaning friends and family members question my stance on abstinence. Even
people who have never talked to me can tell that I believe in purity until marriage
because of the ring I wear on my left hand. Well, when you are a college
student that stance isn’t as popular as it is when you are hanging out with
your Sunday school class. It’s topics like this one that separate the believers
from the non-believers.
So many times in our lives we let ourselves get caught up in
what we want according to what society tells us that we should want. We’re in
college so I must want to go out and party every weekend, drinking, smoking,
and experimenting sexually all the while. I’m a girl so I am automatically weaker
or should be trying to get women to be the more powerful gender. I am a
preacher’s daughter so I am either a goody-goody or the rebel. Because those
are the only options given to us by society.
But you know what? As much as I want some of the same things
as all the other girls I know. I want to get married. I want to have kids. I
want to know true love. But more than all that, I want to live my life in such
a way that if Jesus was standing before me today, I would be able to look him
in the eye and say that I have lived my life according to his desires for me. I
want to be able to offer to my future husband on our wedding night what so many
other girls give away like it is no big deal. I want to be a life of
encouragement for younger girls. I want to be a beacon of God’s light.
I don’t want to be perfect. I just want to do my best in
serving him. Nothing more. Nothing less.
I challenge you to live your lives in a way that praises God
instead of taking away from your witness for Him.
Your Fellow Water Walker,
-Ashlee
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