Do you have a strong desire to be deeply connected to someone, yet an equally intense fear of getting hurt if you ever did connect deeply? Have you longed for someone to open up to you, but once they did, you pulled away because you didn’t know how to handle the intimacy? Do you feel like you’re in a constant push-pull cycle towards romance, pushing for it but then pulling away once you get close to having it?
Sex is a commanded choice (1 Corinthians 7:1-5). In that way, sex is just like love. We are commanded to love others (Matthew 22:37-40). However, true love is a choice. In that same sense, spouses are commanded to have sex. But sex must never be forced. It must always be a voluntary choice.
Have you ever felt so strongly for someone that the thought of losing them made you feel all kinds of fears, even though your actual relationship with them was fine?
What does the Bible say to Christians who are already married to an unbeliever?
While most Christians have a basic understanding of sexual promiscuity before marriage, many do not have a great understanding of emotional promiscuity before marriage.
Satan can’t make you do anything. Scripture is clear that any time we sin, the only person to blame is ourselves (James 1:14).
Many Christians have been taught that the best way to find your spouse is to stop looking – almost like trying to play reverse psychology on God. They think that if they want a spouse too badly, God won’t give it to them. But if they let it go and stop trying to find someone, then God will give it to them.
How will God tell you who to marry? What are the signs that God is highlighting your future spouse to you? And when you sense God revealing “the one” to you, what will that feel like?
Romantic love can either be biblical or worldly. It can be used to please God or displease him. It can either bring life to your heart or death.
How you spend your days will be how you spent your life.
You don’t have to try to waste your life. It will just happen all by itself. A meaningful life, however, will only be produced through intentionality. Success is never an accident.