PROTECTING OUR PURITY

PROTECTING OUR PURITY

In Northern Europe and Asia lives a little animal called the Ermine, known for it’s snow-white fur in winter. The Ermine instinctively protects its white coat against anything that would soil it.

Fur hunters take advantage of this unusual trait. They don't set a snare to catch the Ermine, but instead they find its home, usually a cleft in a rock or a hollow in an old tree, then they smear the entrance and interior with mud.

Afterward, the hunters set their dogs loose to find and chase the Ermine. The frightened animal flees toward home, but will not enter in because of the filth. Rather than soil his white coat, he is trapped by the dogs and captured while preserving his purity.

For the Ermine, purity is more precious than life.

Would that we were more like Ermine. Would to God we would see purity so precious that we would do anything to keep ourselves “unspotted from the world” as the Bible says.

It isn’t easy. Nothing stays clean unless you work to keep it clean. The world hounds us with peer pressure, job expectations, and cultural bandwagons. Satan tries to trap us by bringing filth right into our own homes via television, internet, and ungodly music. We must work at preserving purity or we will lose it.

Being pure in heart and mind is not only healthy for us, but it will be worth it when we meet our pure and perfect Savior face to face. We want to be willing to say that His bride has kept herself unspotted and unblemished by sin, faithful to the Bridegroom.

“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” (2 Corinthians 7:1)

Think on these things…and keep remember to keep the SON in your eyes!