Dear all, i'm gonna post a few blogs about relationships as i believe that it is important for us to hold on to God's view on relationships and not get influence by the world. God's intention for love is not the way how society has distorted it into. Guard your heart brothers and sisters and rmb that we can shine for God!
God's View on Relationships
Should Christians handle relationships differently than the world? Yes! When we look to God’s Word, it’s clear; as followers of Christ, we can’t follow the world’s way or our own ideas. Colossians 2:8 (NKJV) says, Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
Where do you get your wisdom about relationships? Have you consulted God’s Word? If you’ve never looked to God’s Word on this topic, you’re setting yourself up for a fall. You’ve placed yourself in a dangerous position. The Lord desires for you to trust Him and to look to Him for His wisdom and direction. Proverbs 3:5–6 (NKJV) says, Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. The question is not How will you find a mate?, but rather Who will find your mate?
Over the years we’ve seen teens decide to try to find that “special someone” through the world’s way or following their own way. Instead of trusting and turning to God to choose, teens often take it into their own hands. It has led to destruction of family, friends, and youth groups. Proverbs 16:25says, There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
1 Corinthians 6:9–11 (NKJV): Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdomof God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:12–20 (NKJV): All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Thessalonians 4:1–8 (NKJV): Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
Courtesy of
Calvary Chapel Ford Lauderdale
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