There is time for
everything under the heavens, so says the Holy Bible. A time to be in a
relationship and a time you must never keep a relationship when the
things that matters in your life hasn't been established or set in
order.
I receive quite a lot of messages from singles who want to know the right time to go into a relationship.
There are two kinds of relationships singles want to delve into. It's
either they want to date or they're in a relationship leading to
marriage. Going into a dating relationship has ruined the life of many
young boys and girls who have a glorious destiny.
That your friends or mates are dating doesn't mean you should go into a dating relationship.
Why date when you're not ready for marriage? Why date when it'll expose
you to sexual immoralities and you're not strong enough to control your
sexual urge? What's the hype in a dating relationship?
Whether you'd believe it or not, dating relationship does more harm than
good. It's a relationship where you'd be sampled sexually, emotionally,
financially and the likes to know how suitable you're going to be for
marriage even when you're underage or ineligible for marriage.
It allows for sexual immoralities because you'd believe you'll get
married and when you know better, I mean when your understanding of who
you want to marry becomes enlightened, you'll move away from the first
dating relationship in search for another date. Why waste your time,
resources and virtues on a futile relationship?
Your reasons
for dating or your friend's suggestions for dating could be a means for
you to know how the opposite sex behaves. Who says you can't know that
when you're just FRIENDS WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED? It's safer to be in a
relationship that is clearly defined than to keep a relationship based
on assumption or presumption.
Truth be told, the best time to
go into a relationship should be when you're ready to be committed to
the opposite sex, body, soul and spirit. I will suggest a relationship
leading to marriage and not just boyfriend and girlfriend relationship
of a thing.
Relationship demands hard work. Are you ready to
make the relationship work emotionally, spiritually, financially,
mentally and psychologically? This has to do with your level of
maturity.
And before you rush into a relationship, do you
know why you're here? This issue is very important. If you don't know
it, you'll abuse your marriage even if you're married to the right
person. In fact, you'll see your partner as a slave or an intruder.
Know why you're created. God didn't make a mistake for creating you.
Even if your parents gave birth to you by mistake, God has a reason for
making you to survive the period of pregnancy and has kept you up till
now that you're reading this article. Discover that purpose so that you
won't marry the wrong person that will frustrate your life and destiny.
Why go into a relationship or crave for one when you're yet to complete
your academic study? You can't chase two rats at the same time and
catch both. Face your education squarely. No one will marry your own
spouse if you do not date while in school. It's better to give your best
to your education and finish with good grades than to be in a
relationship, finish with bad grades and a broken heart or destroyed
sexual dignity.
The best time to be in a relationship is when
you have a good relationship with God. What has God got to do with my
relationship on earth, you may ask? Having an intimate relationship with
God will make you know who's right or wrong for you. Many fall into the
hands of deceivers because they do not know who's right or wrong.
See in every relationship, there are pretenders and wolves in sheep's
clothing. You need to intimate yourself with God so that He can keep you
from the wrong people and guide you through in making the right choice
when it's the right time for you to be married.
There's a
time you'd have gathered enough strength to make a relationship work.
When I talk of strength, it's not the one you acquire from eating a
large chunk of food or your physical strength, it has to do with your
emotional, spiritual, financial and mental strength to make a great
relationship.
Relationship is a good thing. We all need
relationships in life. But be careful of the relationship you'll enter
into that would destroy your life and destiny. A good thing done at the
wrong time is wrong.
The terrible experiences a lot of people
had in their relationship is as a result of three things: lack of
preparation for the relationship, going into a relationship at the wrong
time and being in a relationship with the wrong person.
Don't rush to enter into a relationship. Take your time to prayerfully,
carefully and wisely choose the right person especially when it comes to
choosing whom to marry.
That you're of age doesn't qualify
you for a relationship, what matters is your ability to choose right and
your understanding and application of what it takes to make a
relationship successful.
© Oluwamayowa Adeniyi 2017

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