Dating ~ The World's Way

Dating is the world's way of seeking out the future mate for your life. While some tackle this with dedicated commitment and passion, others dabble in it with casual enthusiasm. In most situations, it is merely an exploratory venture based on a temporary sense of commitment.
Large amounts of emotional and physical energy are invested in the relationship despite the fact that marriage is not always the goal, and in fact, much collateral damage is usually the result.

While becoming involved with a person, you begin to surrender your heart to the grasp of emotional attachment.

After you have given away your heart and compromised your emotional purity, even perhaps your physical purity, a decision is made that "Hey, I don't want to marry this person!" and future involvement and commitment is not desired causing "the break - up". The emotional and physical ties are severed, resulting in two people; hurt, emotionally wounded and physically scarred.
After the "break-up", you move on to the next possibility, but a part of your heart is left behind. The damage done in your previous relationship(s) is repeated, and again, another part of your heart is left behind. Once it is felt that "the person" is found, and a wish to marry is conveyed, you bring to the table, baggage created in past relationships to the currant one. All purity has been lost, and the practice of non-committal relationships in dating, only decrease the dedication to your marriage partner.With the dissolve of dating relationships becoming the norm, the opposition to divorce only becomes less.

If there is no commitment in dating relationships, why would there be a commitment in a marriage relationship?

Is this hurtful and defiling "dating pattern" God's way and plan?


My sister Jenna and I wrote this together and so we both posted it on our blogs!