So day 7 is in the can for me, and I’m looking forward to day 8. Things have been really good so far. The guide has been helpful, but what has impacted me the most is community with others. One of the things I find me and my friends thinking about is really examining ourselves. It’s funny, life is so busy, you can go a really long time without ever having to take stock of yourself. You know, who you are, who you’re becoming… what you’ve done. This is forcing me to look at “the man in the mirror”. I wrote this blog a long time ago on my own site, and it was called “Lucky Vampire”. It was basically about how vampire’s are so lucky because they can avoid having to see themselves in the mirror. I’m still envious of that sometimes. I challenge singles, all of us, to really look at our past relationships. What have we done that we regret? What have we done to sabotage something good? What patterns do we see ourselves fall into? And maybe, if we’re lucky, what have we done right?
Daily Archive for February 24th, 2008
So I just got back from morning service (which was amazing by the way) and I was thinking about how the challenge may be tough for a single person who is not in a relationship and not dating anyone. I was thinking that they may be discouraged sitting through a service that is all about, A. Married people improving their relationship with their spouse, and B. singles abstaining to gain a deeper understanding of who the person they are dating truly is. I thought they might disconnect a little bit from the series . Then I realized that everything I am learning to do from abstaining can totally be applied to my relationship with God. The challenge is teaching me that by putting sex aside, I can learn more about the person I am dating and in turn, have a healthier, more meaningful relationship. Single people who are not dating can also practice all these things that the challenge is teaching us to do. By cutting out lustful thoughts, and working to improve other daily struggles, non-dating singles can have more time to focus on God and be able to come to a deeper understanding of who he truly is. Here it is: If you think you are single and not dating anyone, feeling a little lonely and left out of the challenge, guess again. You’re totally dating God. Pack your bags and hop on the “30 day sex challenge” train because you are just weeks away from having a deeper more meaningful relationship with a very important person —->JESUS.
New Sunday, originally uploaded by Relevant Church, Tampa.
So we are a week into the 30-Day Sex Challenge and we have just begun a new Sunday. As I write, we are in the midst of our second service of the day and the room is packed with people who are working through the challenge - some married, some single, both learning their individual needs and how to meet the needs of the person they are in relationship with. There are also many people here that are searching for who God is and what He may want to say in their lives.
It occurred to me as Paul was speaking on “Your Way. Right Away.”, that so much of our understanding and recognition of who we truly are and what our deepest emotional needs are is innately linked to who God is, how He designed us and what He has done for us. I believe that is the ultimate starting point for us to be able to find value in our selves, our singleness and any relationship that we have.
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