Teens who get out of a relationship, say they feel so much freer, and then go find a new guy.
Honestly, where is the logic in that?
Especially the kids who get out of a relationship so they can get closer to God. It goes so fast from "Freedom! Now I can draw close to the heart of God!" to "Whoa dang. Good thing I just lost my boyfriend/girlfriend, cause this new person is totally better. It must've been a God thing, the timing being like this!"
What are they thinking?! If you're planning on devoting your heart to God, what's more likely? God providing you with someone new, or you being tempted right back into your old situation?
Sure, I can understand if you've been faithfully searching after God for a year or whatever and you feel He's been speaking to you about a guy, but when it's only been a month (or less), it's much more likely that you're being attacked in a weakness, before you find your balance standing in God's hand.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Don't Give your Heart away. Rather, give God your heart and let Him take care of it.
This is the conclusion I've reached; as humans we are too weak to protect our own hearts. Sure, we can try, but we all fail eventually, either by shutting down our emotions so they don't plague us any more, or by giving our hearts to other humans.
God is uncreated strength. Whatever you can't do, he can do. His strength and protection are available to you, but when you skip off to other things you lose touch with Him. The further you go, the harder it is for you to come back (Unless you're one of those rare, fortunate people who had a huge encounter with God and were saved in an instant).
His heart never moves, but you do. If you pursue Him and devote yourself to finding His heart, you will eventually, just don't give up and go chasing whatever piece of humanity you deem to be safe.
How do you tell when you're close enough to God that you can stay close and have a relationship at the same time?
It's easy (mostly). The closer you get to God, the more automatically discernment comes to you. Also, talking to God and hearing Him will be pretty simple too.
Pursue the heart of God. He's been pursuing your heart since before you were born.
(Note: if you're under 18, this automatically makes you not ready. This also applies to most 20 year olds. Not all, but most. 20 is only 1/5 of your life, if you stay healthy and live to be around 100. You have plenty of time to get close to God and then get married. I promise.)
Oh and one more thing, before I forget. If this is your first time reading this blog, please don't stop here. The other post on relationships is important too.
So that's that for now, I don't know if you can tell but teen love and teen drama's been kind of on my heart lately... Meaning you can probably expect more written lectures on that sort of stuff XD
Just a warning ;]
Goodnight, world.
~Silver
am I your first ever comment? win.
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, all these posts are great-esp like your perspective on relationships. I'm also a little amused that you address 'teens' as if you aren't one-reminds me of something I would do, take that as a compliment if you want.
P.S. you need to start going to bed before 4am at night. ;)