Dating Assignments For Singles
The short excerpt is by Andy Stanley, and the Scripture is Proverbs 22:7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Commit now to becoming someone that can keep their commitments later. Here are two very specific single people assignments so that when you make a commitment later, you’ll actually be able to keep your promise.
1. Ladies, don’t dress like a commodity, and don’t put up with being treated like one. When you are dating, if you get in the habit of being treated like a commodity, your husband is going to do the same thing after marriage. If he dated you like a commodity, then he is going to treat you like a commodity. Have no tolerance for this. A fisherman determines what to bait his hook with by what he is fishing for. If you fish with your body, then you are going to catch body snatcher every single time.
2. Get out of debt. We don’t recommend that people get married until they get out of debt. You can get out of debt a lot quicker as a single person than as a married person. If you are a single person who has so poorly managed your finances that you have debt, when you get married, that’s a behavior that you are carrying into marriage. If he loves you, then he will move in with Momma to get out of debt in order to marry you.
Marriage was not designed to solve any problems. In marriage, generally the great things get better, and the bad things get worse. If you have a bad habit now, then you will have a bad habit and be married. If you drink too much now, then you will drink too much then. If you have a prescription addiction thing, a gambling problem, a porn problem, a shopping problem, a can’t stay out of debt problem, then it’s just going to get worse except someone will know. To prepare to be able to look at somebody and say that I’m going to honor and cherish you, you are going to be the priority of my life, I’m never going to do anything to hurt you or harm this relationship, then break your bad habits now. You already know what they are.
Three more assignments are coming next week. Have a great week!-David Vining
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