Alfred Israel
Youth Leader, RCC Bauchi
As we hear God declaring a season of exploit for the youth and even the amazing grace that will convey us into that season God has begin to whisper about to our elders ( church leaders). As young men and women who will soon be shoulder with the responsibility of leadership and become custodian of the grace of God in our local churches, we must behalf ourselves less we be disqualified from this move of God among his people.
One facet of our life that we need to begin to pay careful attention to is the choice of a married partner. This is very crucial as this stage of your life because making the wrong choice will be a colossal damage to your life and even to the purpose of God in your life. In making the choice of a life partner, only favor from the throne of mercy and nothing short than that will prevent us from making wrong choices.
As I carefully studied the word of God, I discovered that men and women who allowed God to lead them into marriage were those who enjoyed their marriages.
Joseph home hosted the Messiah because that home was constituted by God himself. On the other hand, Jacob and Samson were young men full of energy, who couldn't wait for divine guidance over the choice of who to marry. For Samson, that became his Undoing and for Jacob, he ended up marrying two sisters and became a polygamous man. If not for the grace of God and the covenant God made with Abraham, Jacob would have missed it forever.
As the Lord is opening our understanding now, perhaps my brother and sister you are already committed in a relationship even with the intention of marriage but can you be able to say it is the Lord who is leading you? As good as marriage is, once it is not the Lord who is leading us into, it could end up very bad.
WHY MUST WE WAIT ON THE LORD AND NOT JUST GO AHEAD AND MAKE OUR CHOICES?
1. Because all things including marriage were created to bring pleasure to God: marriage is a ministry and for it to serve the purpose of bringing pleasure to God, it must be instituted by God. My brother and sister, unless you resolve that for you to enter into a marriage that will become a problem to the Lord it will be better not to even marry at all; you will not be able to wait on the Lord. Several young people who fall to wait have actually make a shipwreck of their lives.
2. It is only God who knows all men: don't make a mistake of thinking that you know someone. It is only God who know them and what they will turned out to be even in 20 years time. The Bible says the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord searched the heart.... You can see that even for the Lord to know the heart of a man, he has to search it. It is for your benefit and enjoyment to allow God lead you.
3. Because God is expecting godly offspring from our union as his children. It is only a Christian marriage that has the capacity of populating the earth with godly offspring. You might be so desperate to enter into marriage that this warning the Lord is bringing might not mean anything to you but I really wish you will not harden your heart as our elders did in the wilderness.
If the foundation of a building is not properly laid, engaging an expert builder to build on that foundation is a waste of resources.
Choice of who to marry is the foundation of every home. If the foundations be destroyed, what will the righteous do? Psalm 11:3
God is asking what will the righteous do as if to say that even in heaven, it is a wonder and a surprise for any man who do not allow the Lord to lead him/her build a godly home.
We see young people who are already abusing themselves physically, mentally, socially and even sexually everywhere. These are all wrong foundations upon which none of us whom God is bearing upon the eagle wings to bring into this season of exploit should build. How can you serve God together if you begin upon these foundations.
Every man that claims to love you dear sister should be able to wait until marriage. If he cannot wait, then he doesn't deserve you.
I hear testimony of brothers threatening to end relationships because a sister could not agree to sex before marriage. Even this dear young sister should not be a reason for you to fall into sin. What did you love most? God or marriage.
You must choose wisely.
If our homes are correct, the church which is the body of Christ will be correct.
Let us pray.
Revival is now
Your brother.
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