| Friday, February 18 Time and Place I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases.
Song of Solomon 2:7 A 2005 study by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation on "U. S. Teen Sexual Activity" found 34 percent of young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20, and approximately four million teens contract a sexually transmitted disease each year.* If the young wife of Solomon, King of Israel, were to comment on these statistics, she might say, "Too many young people are stirring up and awakening love before love is ready to be roused." And if Solomon himself were to chime in, he would probably say, "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven--including sex!" Somewhere, the beautiful and intimate act of marital relations has been moved from the sanctity of the marriage bed to the common ways of our culture. And we are the worse for it. God is the author of marriage, romance, and parenthood--and all the acts pertaining thereto. Whether you are pre-wedding or post-wedding, give fresh consideration to God's design for sexual relations--and His perfect time and place for everything. Whereas the charge leveled at the Victorians was "love without sex," today it is "sex without love."
David Watson *Source: kff.org/youthhivstds/upload/U-S-Teen-Sexual-Activity-Fact-Sheet.pdf (as of 10-12-10) Read-Thru-the-Bible
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