Where Goodness Still Grows by Amy Peterson

Author:Amy Peterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2019-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

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I’ll tell them that to be pure is to be in the right place. And the right place is wherever Jesus is.

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If I want to teach my children about purity, here’s what I won’t say. I will not tell them they might become impure if they start to experiment with sex. Instead, I’ll tell them that to be pure is to be in the right place. And the right place is wherever Jesus is. His purity is so strong you never have to worry that something you bring to that place can sully it or make you disgusting or change who you are. The purity you have in being united with Christ is not something you can lose.

Purity means embracing your unity with Christ and, in that unity, becoming free to open yourself fearlessly to others in ways that are safe and healthy and truly loving—in ways that draw others into fellowship with Christ too.

Blessed are the pure in heart, Jesus said, for they shall see God. But such purity is not something to achieve through careful rule following. It is something to receive as the gift of God to you in Christ, and it is something that can never be lost.

We are, after all, pure as the driven snow: soot at the heart, washed in baptism, and made lovely.

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