DTFS Promise Series Part 35: Promise To Be True

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Around the time that I was 18 years old going on 19 I felt this.  Maybe, I wasn't meant to get married? I didn't really have a good track record when it came to being in long-term relationships with the guys I was with.

I could remember
some of my friends, family members, and even acquaintances seemed worried. They were worried because I didn't have a boyfriend and I needed to get married soon they said.

I guess I do have some cousins in the Philippines who got married at like 16 due to needing to be a parent to
their children. Other people were seriously worried or concerned because I did not yet have a serious relationship. I wasn't worried at all. Well, maybe a little bit. No I don't think so. The thought did cross my mind how to ameliorate things about myself so that I would be able to catch that right guy for me.

I gave the whole situation to God. I knew that if it was the will of God he would send me the man that he created for me. And, if maybe I wasn't meant to he married, I knew that He would provide the means to make me feel satisfied. Perhaps, his will was for me to be a missionary and travel the world!? Who knows?

However, to my surprise he had the perfect man for me. Ask me to tell you guys how we met. It is an interesting story. Oh man.

Moral of the story is God answered my prayer the way he wanted it to be answered. My job was to promise him to be true to him and that's what I did until he provided the one the  created just for me.

TBC.....

1 Corinthians 7:1-4

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

1 Corinthians 7-8

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. ...

Jaci Velasquez: I Promise