More Thoughts on Relationships

My return to the Phils have been a long time coming. My hope is that I will be able to keep my emotional wants and desires "out of it" long enough for me to listen to the wants and desires of God. I know that God wants us to do 'His' will and not our own. After all, that's what makes the most sense. God made us so he know what he made us for.


As far a my girlfriend (Malu) goes I would have to say I don't believe in that sort of thing. It would be more accurate to say that I know that God is my father and I have allowed God to make the decision whether or not I should be single or be married. My soon to one day be marriage to Malu is the result of my listening for God's will and not
my own.


I think the whole concept of boyfriends and girlfriends only gets singles in trouble with matters of purity. Malu is actually the one that introduced a book to me that reflected a lot of the things that I believe the Lord had already shown me. The purpose for our lives is to glorify God, so I know that the Lord has chosen someone for me that is none better for that purpose. If the only thing that draws a man to a woman (or visa versa)
is that woman's beauty, intelligence, humor, or other qualities, then I believe that relationship/marriage would be built on something substandard.


The only thing worth building a relationship or future marriage on is the same reason that anything should be built on; the foundation of Christ. And with that in mind I will also add that any man/woman that would allow God to make that decision for them would naturally find that they would find everything they need in the person that God had chosen for them (or even being single). In addition to being intelligent and beautiful, I also believe Malu will more importantly help me to do God's will in ways that I don't yet understand and only God knows.