03/16/2019
Here are a few reasons why dating has not made us better at marriage.
● Dating for fun because “why not” YOLO!
● Focusing on the physical 🥰 while continuing to ignore all the red flags 🚩
● Trying before buying...... Need I say more?....
● Living together before marriage because if it doesn’t work out we can just BOUNCE 👋🏽
● Looking for “the one” while wanting what we want and not the one we NEED!
● Treating love as a feeling, so the minute the butterflies 🦋 leave then that must mean I don’t love you like I thought I did! 🤔
● Thinking that marriage will solve all your problems!!!!!! 🛑 NO NO NO!!!! If marriage does anything different is that it intensifies the problems and if your in it for the 🦋 then you’re already on the road to disaster!
First and foremost, while you are single, make the most of being single. Being single is not a curse. It’s not a disease to be cured. The time of your life that you are single is actually a gift if you treat it like one. You can do all the things that will be next to impossible to do once your married, like travel the world, go on mission trips, things that are hard to do with a spouse and a family to take care of.
Use your free time as a single person to prepare for marriage. The most loving thing you can do for your future spouse, before you even start dating, is to work on yourself first. Recover from past hurts or from mistakes you’ve made, start doing the things now that will make you a better spouse in the future.
There is nothing wrong with you if all your friends get married and you aren’t there yet. There are tons of single people who wish they were married and just as many married people who wish they were single. Don’t look at marriage as the end goal of life, it doesn’t complete you.
Jesus completes us, not marriage. Someone else cannot make you whole only a relationship with God can do that.
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