Purity is maintained through small choices.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

Satan will cause you to think that this conversation, this email exchange, this touch, this warm expression, this look, exchange between eyes, that that will meet some need, that it will fulfill some empty space

in your heart. What he doesn't tell you is how deadly and destructive the outcome will be.

And I hear this from women all the time.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo, author of Adorned, for Tuesday, March 21st, 2017.

Your small choices today can have a huge effect.

That's true in many areas of life, but one of the most important areas is in moral purity.

Poor choices in this area can lead to some devastating results.

If you have small children, you may want to divert their attention while you listen to Nancy,

continuing in a series called God's Beautiful Design for Women, Living Out Titus 2, 1 through 5.

In 1894, Ruth Smithers, who was the wife of the Reverend L.D. Smithers, wrote a guide for young brides.

And in part of that guide, she says this, to the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing,

the wedding day is ironically both the happiest and the most terrifying day of her life.

On the positive side, there is the wedding itself,

in which the bride is the central attraction in a beautiful and inspiring ceremony,

symbolizing her triumph in securing a male to provide for all her needs for the rest of her life.

I read that and I thought, there has never been a man created who could meet all of a woman's needs for all of her life.

But so she said in 1894.

Then she says on the negative side, there is the wedding night during which the bride must pay the piper, so to speak,

by facing for the first time the terrible experience of what was a hard word to say in those days, sex. And she says, one cardinal

rule of marriage should never be forgotten. Give little, this is in capital letters, give seldom,

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