Sex Before Marriage..Big Whoop?!

Sex Before Marriage - No Big Deal right?...

...Okay, bare with me here until I get my point out.

At lunch today, some of my coworkers were discussing something when I walked into the lunch room. One of the girls just came back from a 2 week honeymoon/destination wedding so there was talk about how they are now trying to have a baby. Another girl, brought up a friend of hers who went on birth control so that she wouldn't get pregnant the first time she had sex (on her wedding night). This coworker of mine, after explaining the story, made a comment (which struck me as interesting) along the lines of "I didn't know that people still did that these days". I actually felt as if she was degrading the idea of saving sex for marriage. Maybe that's the way that society today views sex, and I'm "not up with the times" because of my Christian viewpoint.

Sex is precious. It's not something to be unthoughtful and unruly about. It is something to take care of and hold on to and to be proud of (as I don't understand how people go around bragging about the amount of people they have slept with...gross...although, I do have to acknowledge that there are different morals at play between people like that and myself). There are so many verses in the Bible that speak to this sanctification of sex. To only name a couple:

1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 "It is God's will that you should be sanctified; that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable."
Hebrews 13:4 "Marriage is to be honored by all and the marriage bed kept pure."

(Haha, as I was looking up verses that would work well, most of them discuss sexual immorality - which do pertain to this posting, but in the opposite way I was hoping for - so that's all I could get in the limited time I'm allowing myself to write this post in).

Anyway, I have made a commitment in my life to be sexually pure until I am united with the man God has placed in my life, and I plan on keeping it that way. No one can put me down or make me feel ashamed of this!

So, to answer the question above - Sex Before Marriage - No Big Deal right? ... WRONG! It IS a big deal, and I think we need to celebrate more often with those that do make a commitment and stick to it. How that is accomplished, I have no idea...just something that is crossing my mind and my fingers are typing it out...

That is all for now.