Day 27: SEX EDUCATION (CHILDREN)

Sex Education is as simple as knowing who you are. You are God’s image (Gen.1:27). God made humans in His image, just in His likeness and male and female he made them (Gen. 5:2, Matt. 19:4). After creation, God looked at all He made and concluded that they were good, but for the man, He said “very good”. You were created and assigned gender by your Maker (God). You need not to be confused. It is a pity that it is only human beings, made in God’s likeness, who are confused and are changing the Creator’s plans for them.

God has endowed us with some hormones that help our development and growth. As a young person, you need to protect yourself as you grow in age and size. As development continues, some bodily features, characters, roles and identities begin to differ. As a girl child, you learn that you cannot be exposing your chest, even when you are participating in sporting activities. Your chest is not for public view; it is private. Both genders have private and public parts of the body; preserve your dignity by covering up your private parts.

When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, their eyes were opened, and they found they were naked. Did you know that God did not leave them like that? Even though they tried to cover themselves with that which will not last, God made for Adam garments of skin (Gen. 3:21). Part of the reasons people fall into sexual sin is through nudity, either watching it as pornography or exposing yourself to the world through dressing. Be conscious of this that you are being brought with a price.

SEX EDUCATION (YOUNG ADULT/ YOUTH)

One of the best places to talk to youth about sex education is the gathering of God’s people. It makes it easy for them to view it in God’s way and the context of God’s love and law. Sex is a special gift God gave to humankind; it is a seal of the union between a man and a woman in marriage. It is an expression of love and bond for intimacy in a relationship called marriage.

Sex is not for a boy and girl’s relationship. Sex is not allowed in courtship. Though they were in courtship, Joseph wanted to leave Mary, the lady he loved, because it was against the law of God and custom of their land for a young lady who had not been married to engage in premarital sex, not to talk of being pregnant (Deut. 22 vs 13-22). The Creator’s intention is not for sex/sexual activity/intercourse to exist outside marriage. The day you get married, you are licensed to have sex.

Nowadays, it is increasingly difficult for youths to keep themselves away from sexual sin due to pressure, peers, and places (environmental influence). I was in South Africa some time ago. One of the things I observed was that most of the young people I met in malls were hanging out in twos (male + female). I called the attention of my host to this, and she confirmed that is the usual way of life for most of their teens and young adults. Worse still, she added that the typical outcome of their fornicative lifestyle is that the lady gets pregnant and is left alone to care for the baby as a single mother.

How can our young minds live in this world without committing sexual sin? The best way is ABSTINENCE

A- Abstain from all appearances of evil 1 Thess. 5:22

B- Be determined to keep yourself pure Daniel 1:8

S- Secure your heart with all diligence Prov. 4:23

T- Think of the future before giving yourself out to sexual sin Deut. 29:29

I - Intimate yourself with God James 4:8

N- Never trust in the arm of flesh 1 Samuel 2:9

E- Enlighten your path with the light of God Psalms 119:105

N- Never give room to the devil Eph. 4:27

C- Covenant with your eyes not to look at a damsel Job. 31:1

E- Embrace the word of God Psalms 119:11

Abstinence is not having sex with anyone, and you can do it. Trust God for grace and be purposeful to wait till your wedding night to give your spouse a special gift on your matrimonial bed.

Mrs Tope Oladunjoye 

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