purity

one of the new burger king adverts out at the moment says 'our meat is 100% pure even if you arent'. it is true that purity has become of less value to what it used to be. where once it was unthinkable to be anything but a virgin at marriage, it is now completely acceptable to have a child/family without getting married, and even acceptaable to become a prostitute(though this is looked down upon, prostitutes dont get kicked out of their towns/cities, or killed etc. anymore). this brings up the question of what is purity? ive looked it up in the dictionary and this is what it says: to be pure 1:not mixed with any other substances; uncontaminated; not immoral, innocent, chaste.
so to be pure, we cant be mixed with anything else. this means we are all impure, as we are born into a sinful world, a world full of contamination. and no matter how hard we try, we can never be fully pure because our godly beings are mixed with our worldly being. where is the hope for our lives? in Jesus. the only way we can be pure is to follow Jesus, and die. whilst on this earth we cannot be pure. we can strive to be pure, but also need to remember that we are not pure so as to avoid putting others down.