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This
is the story of how I almost made a big mistake. You see, I had fallen
in love. It was the dreamy, he's-so-perfect, now-my-life-makes-sense
kind of love. And we wanted to get married, Patrick (pseudonym) and I.
But through all my elation, all the giddiness, I began to sense a problem,
ignored at first, but growing. It was becoming increasingly clear to
me that I was breaking the greatest commandment of all, to "love the
Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your
mind" (Matthew 22:37).
For though this young man seemed to be everything I ever wanted mentally, physically and emotionally, we were not aligned spiritually—and God says not to marry in such cases (2 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Corinthians 7:39). Patrick was not even convinced God existed. We were on entirely different spiritual paths, and there were few intersections that I could see in our future.
Here's where the justifications began. I felt there was something wonderful laid out before me, and I didn't want God or anyone else to tell me I could not have it.
I started begging God to call Patrick, to make him a believer. After a time, these prayers seemed answered when Patrick was willing to attend church with me. He went once and intellectually dissected what he saw and heard. Still, it was a start. I began to tell myself it would only take time. He thought we should get married first and then let his relationship with God develop as it would. This sounded quite reasonable, I thought.
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