Outdated: Find Love That Lasts When Dating Has Changed

by Jonathan "JP" Pokluda

People waste gifts because they either don’t realize their value or don’t know how to use them. If God gives you a gift, you know it is going to be valuable. The question is, How are you going to use it? If you are single, there’s a good chance you have a gift that you’re wasting.

Love Jesus first, with all your heart, and then find someone who loves him just as much and marry that person.

A healthy, godly marriage is not entertaining. It’s amazing; it’s beautiful; it’s an incredible adventure; it’s boring. You wouldn’t want to watch it, but you do want to live it.

Real love is selfless. It’s about serving, not being served; giving, not getting. And when both people love and give and serve each other selflessly, well, you end up getting quite a lot.

I’m sad that good guys often aren’t asking good girls out in person and are hiding behind the wall of technology instead.

Just a quick but important reminder: God took great joy in designing you.c He loves you, has given you infinite value, and has paid a great price for you through his Son, Jesus. Find someone with that faith who understands your worth.

You want to be someone who is pursuing Christ with your whole life, and then you’re trying to find someone else pursuing Christ at the same pace—going the same direction you are at the same speed. And if you’re fully yielded to Christ and they’re fully yielded to Christ, you don’t have to pursue each other. You pursue God together, side by side, as one.

If a man’s not willing to take initiative, and doesn’t see you as being valuable enough to be worth pursuing in dating, then he is not the kind of man you really want to yoke yourself to.