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| Life Lessons (mostly geared towards singles):
1. Choose your friends wisely.
I didn't understand the important of wise council until recently on my trip home. I saw an old friend, Bill, who had recently had a new friend. They've been best friends for the last 18 months or so. The friend, Bob, has a terrible influence on Bill. Bill has down a complete 180 from where he was when I saw him 2 years ago. Before he was really motivated and what I would consider a strong Christian male. He's been through seminary and spent several years in the ministry field.
He recently took a job in the private sector making a lot of money. Now he, with the influence of Bob, he spends his money on prescription drugs, alcohol, partying, cars (has 2 new cars), the nicest apartment in town, and all the new gadgets and gizmos. He is all about the here and now, the instant gratification that so many people demand today. I was pretty much speechless the whole time I was with him because I didn't know what to say. I should have asked him where God was among all of this.
But that got me thinking about how wisely you should choose your friends - imagine how much influence your spouse has on you. To those of you who aren't in a relationship, I implore you to find a spiritually mature S.O. if you want to continue on in a strong Christian faith.
2. Set yourself out - a man among men. You need to be an outstanding man to get an outstanding woman.
If anyone works hard enough, they can be pretty good looking or have a good amount of money. What a man needs to do his to set himself out among the other men by his character development. A huge part of it is being mature enough to let God mold you more into the image of Christ.
I realized yesterday that the character development doesn't stop once you get the girl. You must continually be refined every year of your life - growing and maturing into the man God wants you to be.
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Life is good. Marriage is great. I never realized how selfish I was until I got married. You learn a lot about yourself. Anything that is negative/sinful that is not dealt with before marriage will be brought and have to be addressed for the health of the relationship.
I finished this book and I thought it was GREAT! I would highly recommend it to anyone.
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| "Creatures are not born with
desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels
hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim:
well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well,
there is such a thing as sex. If I find myself in a desire which no
experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is
that I was made for another world."
-C.S. Lewis
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| "Television ruins more minds than drugs" | | |
| "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
--Thomas Paine
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