A little talk with my daughter
When my daughter had just turned nine years old, the Lord awoke me one night and told me that He wanted me to speak to my her about keeping her body pure for her future husband.
You need to know that my daughter is Guatemalan and has always been very small for her age. She actually looked about six years old instead of nine.
I was taken by surprise, I said "Lord, isn't she too young for that?"
His answer to me was that there was a lot to be seen on the television and now was the time for the talk.
So I answered, "Well if you say it is the time then I will do it, but how should I talk to her, what do I say?"
I remembered that when my parents had talked to me about sex, they just told me that it was wrong not to be a virgin when I married, but they didn't tell me why, so it did very little good, but it did make me real curious.
I didn't want that for my daughter, I wanted to explain to her why. So I asked the Lord about it.
The next day I called her to me and told her what the Lord had told me to tell her.
I first explained that the relationship between a man and his wife was like that of Jesus and His bride, the church. I explained that as the covenant with the church was a blood covenant, so the covenant between the man and his bride, was also a blood covenant. I then explained to her about the membrane covering that God had given her, which would make the blood covenant between her and her future husband. I explained how this could only take place one time, just as Jesus only spilled His blood one time for His bride. That in Gods eyes when the covenant was made in blood, it was to be a lasting covenant even as His covenant with the church is a lasting covenant. So it would be very important for her to be very sure of the person with whom she would make the covenant.
I explained to her that if she made this covenant outside of marriage, she would never be able to make it again when she did marry. I explained that she might one day find someone with whom she did want to make the covenant, but it would have already have taken place with someone else. I explained also that this was a special gift that she had for her husband on her wedding day. Just as she didn't like someone else to open her presents, neither would he.
I told her that if she kept the gift for him, that on her wedding day would be able to walk down the aisle of the church dressed in white, knowing that she had a wonderful gift for her husband and how happy he would be.
I then told her that God had set aside someone very special for her from the day that she had been conceived, and that it was her place to find that person. That satan might try to fool her, by bringing someone else to her and make her think he was the one God intended for her, but he really wasn't. I told her that she had to make sure that it was the one God had made for her. She would always have to ask God to show her if she had found the right one or not. That when she found that very special one that God had made just for her, then she would be very happy.
As we finished our little talk, we prayed that God would guide her to find that special one and that He would let her know when she had.
Her eyes glowed with emotion at the close of the prayer.
It wasn't long after that, we made a vacation trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. One day we entered a small fast food restaurant, and she shared a table with her thirteen year old brother. He was so embarrassed as her little voice piped the whole conversation for all the restaurant to hear.
It might have made my son uncomfortable, but at least I knew that she had been listening.
"Raise up a child in the way s/he should go and when s/he is old s/he will not depart from it"
Proverbs 22:6
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