Purity at the Pool on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

It is Memorial Day, which for so many of us is the unofficial start of summer. We're going to

start thinking about barbecues, we're going to think about summer vacations, and we are

going to think about spending time at the pool and at the beach and at the water

park.

And what I want to do on the podcast this week is talk about how to pursue purity when you

are at the pool, when you're at the beach, when you're at the water park.

And as fun and enjoyable as these experiences are, we need to be honest that as Christians, for so many men and for so many women, this is a challenge.

There are numbers of people gathered at these places, and they are immodestly dressed, and it can cause

significant problems in the thought life and in the spiritual life of people who are participating in it.

And so what we want to do is just take an opportunity to talk about some things that you can

do as we enter into the summer season and how you can pursue purity when you go to the pool.

The first thing I want to encourage you to do is to pray. In Matthew chapter 6, verse 13,

Jesus Christ encourages believers to pray that God would deliver them from temptation.

If you are a person who is aware that it's tempting for you to be at the pool and be looking

at all of the immodest people that are there, then you should not go

without praying. You can ask the Lord that he would deliver you from temptation, and you can be

confident that that prayer prayed in faith will be answered by the Lord.

Second thing that you can do is memorize and meditate upon Scripture. Psalm 119, verse 11 says,

I've hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. The Bible is a weapon used against

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