Remember That Love Is A Choice. We live in the culture of new. We expect quick fixes, instant access and immediate gratification. Millennials are known for valuing an abundant freedom of choices and are perhaps resistant to that which may tie them down, eliminating other options. This may explain why Pew Research Center found that millennials represent a record high in the number of people who are not married and will likely never be married. In our always changing, easy to update, quick to replace society, where does the long-lasting investment of marriage fall? One of the greatest lies our culture tells us is that love is a feeling. It’s something we experience, not something we do. When the Apostle Paul spoke to the church in Corinth about what it meant to love each other, he didn’t describe even one characteristic of love that was based on feelings. To be patient and kind is a choice we make often in spite of the emotions we are experiencing. If “comparison is the thief of joy,” how quickly we give up our joy and the excitement of our relationships by comparing them to what we think we know of other people. The early days of excitement and passion and great emotion fuel the beginning of the journey. But sometime down the road, feelings fade and the young believer is faced with a choice to run off the fumes of that initial energy, to walk away or to dig in and grow down. For those that put in the work to continue growing, the depth they experience surpasses any rush they knew at the start. Read more at relevantmagazine/life/relationships/when-marriage-no-longer-exciting#hpEbsu2beY12x7ZJ.99
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:51:51 +0000
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