The tips I gave yesterday that showed teens how to avoid getting into premarital sex can also be effective for adults. As a Christian single woman, I know it can be easy to succumb to the pressure from both physical desire and worldly coercion.
Personally, I have stopped looking for a mate. Not because I don't want to be married. I'm a normal woman and as I grow older, I want the companionship and fulfillment of marriage. But it's a perilous game, especially if the person you are dating (or you yourself) like to 'go to the edge and see how much you can do without actually falling off' in terms of sexual contact.
It is "the thing" these days in my country that you must be 'with' someone and having sex if you are a woman (or man, as the case may be). If not, something is wrong with you. As far as I can see, this goes for the Christian as well. This puts pressure on Christians from 25 years up (nowadays 25 is considered old ) to get married, or at least have a partner. I have chosen to jump off that treadmill. Instead I have told God to choose a husband for me., and let him do all the . seeking.' I've even reached to the mindset that if I don't get married, I would not 'kill myself' about it.
So to my dear fellow single Christians, young, old and in between, I say this. Be strong and be of good courage. Stand your ground, Dare to be different from the crowd. Touch not, taste not, handle not! It's not always easy to stand alone, and you may tumble. under the strain But if you do tumble, arise, get up, ask Jesus forgive you, and keep walking. God is our strength, and He will help us to overcome all.
"If you desire to be married, if it in your deepest of hearts you desire a mate, then God will satisfy that desire. Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband."
Personally, I have stopped looking for a mate. Not because I don't want to be married. I'm a normal woman and as I grow older, I want the companionship and fulfillment of marriage. But it's a perilous game, especially if the person you are dating (or you yourself) like to 'go to the edge and see how much you can do without actually falling off' in terms of sexual contact.
It is "the thing" these days in my country that you must be 'with' someone and having sex if you are a woman (or man, as the case may be). If not, something is wrong with you. As far as I can see, this goes for the Christian as well. This puts pressure on Christians from 25 years up (nowadays 25 is considered old ) to get married, or at least have a partner. I have chosen to jump off that treadmill. Instead I have told God to choose a husband for me., and let him do all the . seeking.' I've even reached to the mindset that if I don't get married, I would not 'kill myself' about it.
So to my dear fellow single Christians, young, old and in between, I say this. Be strong and be of good courage. Stand your ground, Dare to be different from the crowd. Touch not, taste not, handle not! It's not always easy to stand alone, and you may tumble. under the strain But if you do tumble, arise, get up, ask Jesus forgive you, and keep walking. God is our strength, and He will help us to overcome all.
"If you desire to be married, if it in your deepest of hearts you desire a mate, then God will satisfy that desire. Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband."
I Corinthian 7:2 (KJV)
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