Holiness is God's Will for You

Many times we want to know God's will for our lives. We want to know if a certain school is God's will. Maybe we desire to know if God would have us play a certain sport. Perhaps, as you look way into the future, you are hoping to someday marry the man or woman who is God's will for you.
Sometimes in our interest in God's will in these areas, we miss God's will where it is clearly spelled out. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 tells us what God's will for our life is. "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication." We could put the verse even more simply like this: "For God's will is that you be holy: you should avoid immorality."
God wants your life to be characterized by holiness. Holiness (or sanctification, they both come from the same root words) refers to being separated or different. We can separate our lives from many different things. For instance, I try to maintain a separation in my life from mushrooms. I don't think they look good, smell good, and certainly they do not taste good! If God's will for our lives is that we be holy and separate, what should we separate from?
The second part of the verse explains the first and gives the answer to that question. God's will is that we be separate from immorality. Immorality is any kind of sexual activity outside of marriage. God designed sexual activity for a husband and wife, and any misuse of these gifts outside of marriage is against God's will.
If we want to find God's will for our lives, this is a great place to start: keeping our lives pure. We need to guard our eyes, our minds, and keep our bodies pure for our spouse (or future spouse). This is God's will for you: be holy and avoid immorality!