Carmen Riggs Posted September 14, 2017 Group: Newbie Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/14/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted September 14, 2017 Hi! I've been in a serious, long term relationship with my Christian boyfriend for about two years now. We both feel that marriage is definitely something we're being called towards, however we're in college and would like to wait till we've gotten our degrees for financial reasons. While this is fine, by the time we've graduated, it'll have been 6 years that we've been together. I'm concerned about our temptations towards each other and how that might effect our relationship. While it seems fairly obvious that it's natural for a couple of long term and close emotional intimacy to feel attracted to each other, I'm worried that because we are not married it'll be a deep conviction, and something that is good and (dare I say it) rather essential for a relationship to be turned into a negative thing. I especially don't want that negative opinion of attraction or sexuality to carry over into our marriage and then turn painful for the both of us. Is there any scripture, any advice that you could give me? Is it really just best to haggle out the financial burden of being married in college for the sake of our purity and happiness? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted September 14, 2017 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.24 Reputation: 9,760 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted September 14, 2017 If you keep God first in your life, the years will pass and you will remain in Him. It is when we turn from Him and follow our flesh that our desires give birth to sin, and when sin flourishes, death follows. Remain strong in teh Lord and trust in Him always and first. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted September 14, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 185 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,224 Content Per Day: 3.33 Reputation: 16,647 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted September 14, 2017 Paul said it is better to marry than to burn. Some say that means burn with passion and others think it means to burn in hell. Whichever, it will be harder for your boyfriend to remain abstinate than for you. That is the way he is made. It would even be better for one to drop out to put the other one through school and then to return to finish his/her education afterward than to start a marriage with guilt and sin. Praying that God give you both strength and wisdom, and determination to live for God. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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