- Am in a stage that implies dating
- Am in an atmosphere obsessed with dating
- Have an idolatrous mindset that says: "Jesus + girlfriend = everything"
“Who can understand the riches of the glory of this grace? Here this rich and divine bridegroom Christ marries this poor, wicked harlot, redeems her from all her evil, and adorns her with all his goodness. Her sins cannot now destroy her, since they are laid upon Christ and swallowed up by him. And she has that righteousness in Christ, her husband, of which she may boast as of her own and which she can confidently display alongside her sins in the face of death and hell and say, ‘If I have sinned, yet my Christ, in whom I believe, has not sinned, and all his is mine and all mine is his.’”
– Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian
I am wed to Christ. In Him, I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which he lavished upon me. In Him I am complete. The equation is altered to the liberating truth - Jesus + Nothing = Everything.
He is my first love, and all sufficient. This must take hold in my heart before I even begin to entertain the thought of dating - I am already in an all satisfying relationship.
you are the man! I needed to read that
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