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Hi, I'm Andrea. Welcome to A Pure Radiance! My desire is to encourage women to look to Jesus and be radiant, freed from shame and living in the purity that overflows from a vibrant relationship with Christ. Let's pursue Jesus together! Read More…

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The calling of Christ is a high one. Sexual integrity matters. What you do with your sexuality can either bring great honor and glory to God and tell a beautiful story, or it can ruin the picture He is wanting to show the world through marriage.
Sex is about becoming one. It is a gift within the covenant of marriage, where God has made two people one, a consummation and renewal of covenant, but how very contrary to His picture it is to become one with anyone outside of covenant.
Please, “Flee from sexual immorality . . . You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 6: 18-20

Do what it takes. We are none of us above this. I don’t care if you’re 13 or 33, married or single. You don’t outgrow the need to flee it. Flee. Run. Run to Jesus. Don’t just put off sin, but put on Christ. Don’t just set boundaries, but pray to have a heart that loves holiness and longs to please God more than it loves sin and to please itself. Set before you the consequences of sin, and the opportunity to glorify God and the accompanying rewards.

Maybe you have a past. Maybe you’re sinning now. Turn. Repent. The wonder of the lavish grace of God is that it is so ill-deserved.

Yes, “such were some of you (speaking of unrighteous, sexually immoral people). But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6:11

So now, live that way. Live as a person who has been purchased by the blood of Christ. Pursue holiness, even as He is holy. Let the price that has been paid for your sin move you to thankfulness, and a firm vow to walk worthy of the calling you have been given. {link in bio} http://apureradiance.com/a-call-to-sexual-integrity/

#apureradiance #sexualintegrity #givemejesus

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Twas a lovely day adventuring with my brother. Finding waterfalls and lakes and pretty things. Fall in the PNW is so beautiful. Managed to walk 9 miles. A day well-spent. #pnwgirl #getoutside #franklinfalls #lakesammamish #pnw

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I am struck by this verse: “Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore He exalts Himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.” Isaiah 30:18

I pray often that God would show me who He is. And this verse reveals a facet of God that I don’t think about often enough.

The Lord waits to be gracious to me. Other translations say “longs” instead of “waits”. This is His heart for me. As the rest of the chapter says, sometimes He must punish us, and sometimes we are unwilling to come to Him and we try to do it our own way, so there can be no blessing.

But His heart is to be gracious to me. His heart is to restore and strengthen and uphold me. He wants to guide me in the ways I should go. His timing is perfect. If He “waits to be gracious” – He has good reasons for waiting.

He is exalted, I know that, and I am called to reverence and worship Him as such. But sometimes, at least when I look at circumstances, it seems like He has forgotten to step in down here, or worse, that He is actually causing pain for some motive of His own that maybe isn’t actually good. Such thoughts are wrong and sinful, of course, but don’t our thoughts go there at times, even if we would never admit it out loud?

The truth is: He exalts Himself to show mercy to us. We who do not deserve it, who are in fact ill-deserving of it, are nevertheless the recipients of His mercy and the objects of His affection. He is a God of justice, this is true, which is sometimes the reason He must “wait” to be gracious to us, but His heart is always, always to show mercy to us. Mercy triumphs over judgment. And His mercies are new every morning.

That, my friends, is a sweet, sweet truth. {keep reading on my blog, link in bio}

#apureradiance #wellwateredwomen #givemejesus #givemejesusjournal #waitontheLord

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Amy Carmichael said “A cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jolted.” How I want that to be true of me. To be so full of Christ that I respond as He would have me, no matter how suddenly I am jolted. In big things and in small.

I want His love for a hurting woman who thinks ending the life of her unborn child would make things better. I want His joy when dreams don’t come true. I want His peace when deadlines press in. I want His patience when technology conspires against me. I want His kindness when interrupted by a child. I want His goodness when compromise seems easier. I want His faithfulness when it feels boring. I want His gentleness when harsh words are tempting. I want His self-control when faced with an opportunity to sin secretly.

Yet the call of Christ is not to reform outwardly or to “try harder”. It is to know Him, and out of that knowing Him to be changed. It is a call to walk worthy of the calling to which we have been called. ~keep reading at http://apureradiance.com/show-me-who-you-are-fill-me/ {link in bio}

#apureradiance #wellwateredwomen #amycarmichael #givemejesus #givemejesusjournal

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A week well spent, capturing the moments and finding adventures. Together.

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