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07 Jul

I Don’t Before I Do

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When I was around twenty years old it was my time to decide about getting married. Our love that was there was very strong but I couldn’t generate enough love for commitment.

Marriage is serious and I’d seen my parents, uncles and aunts, and others suffer through divorce. There were plenty of life’s options. I first needed to know more about me before I joined another life and or created life.

Saying I don’t before I do and walking away from the dedicated love of a beautiful young women was the most difficult thing I had done.

The following sixteen years I played at love. I loved falling in love with love but after the thrill was gone so was I. At thirty six God made me a Christian and removed all my games about love and taught me His rules.

2 Corinthians 6:14 “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with dark?”

That was very clear teaching. For all of my twenty five years of my Christian walk I’ve wanted to be equally yoked but life didn’t work out that way, so I remained unmarried.

Watching Christians or so called Christians make the liberal choice to compromise and disobey God, choosing to sin by marrying a non believer, I saw people living in that sin for decades.

I saw how the growing ease of personal and social disobedience disregards the will of God.

How do they explain that to their children? Perhaps they say, I loved someone first and decided to openly defiantly sin and love God second.

Thank God all true Christians can repent and ask God for forgiveness in Jesus. The high standards of God should always be reached for even though we are flawed with sin.

I’m a sinner and a hypocrite like the rest when I put my sin above the will of God. All we can say is we are covered in the blood of Jesus. Our sins are not held against us.

But liberalism is no license to sin. The consequences of the sin of being unequally yoked or married to non believers may be seen in our culture.

I’m told the divorce rate among non Christians and Christians is the same about 52%.  The next Christian generation watches their parents disregard for the word of God.

Compromise tears up a true Christian by deliberately ripping themselves away from the truth of God. The joy of our communion with the Holy Spirit suffers.

Only true confession and humility through prayer and repentance can bring harmony with God who will restore those who truly love Him. Obeying God first is living life His way. He will provide.

Ephesians 3:19 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.


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