if you love me, please pray for Angela
my new-found California friend that I know through work, Angela, is amidst a difficult decision re: relationship with a Christian guy she met through e-harmony. Namely, she wants to stay friends level, but he e-mailed her this morning and said that he wants to be boyfriend/girlfriend. She does not know what to do re: him.please pray for my friend, Angela!!!!!!
posted by the princess @ 12/14/2005 12:40:00 PM
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Whoa, so what's up? What did she do? Is she interested in dating him???
CRAZY!
apologies for the delay.
the scoop is (shout out to Angela!!! she now reads my blog, b/c I told her about it Wednesday). I think his behavior, and I told this to Angela, he starts to "defend his ego" if that makes any sense. Like, when Angela explained to him that she wasn't comfortable with some of the things he was saying over e-mail, he said something like, "I just want to hang out with you at my place, and snuggle with you on the couch and watch movies." (Does that comment freak you out as much as it freaks me out? I mean, LEAD ME NOT INTO TEMPTATION. If somebody loves me, they should be guarding my purity as best they can. And if I cared about him, I should be guarding his, too.)
Angela already didn't want to go over to someone house, and didn't want them to come over to hers. Angela's comment was, "If that's going to happen, there better be a ring on my finger and I'm married!"
I appreciate how solid my new-found friend Angela is. When she said that comment, I was like "WOW." It ministered to me.
Then Wed. Angela got this devotion from Pastor Greg (Harvest Ministries), totally applicable to this situation. He wrote
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.— James 1:14
"Some years ago, I was at the beach with my son Jonathan, and we decided to go swimming. We weren't very far from the shore. Suddenly there was one of those drops in the sand, and for a few moments, my feet did not really touch the ground. As I was holding on to Jonathan, a little riptide began to pull us over to the right, just enough to move us along. We were originally lined up with a lifeguard stand, but I noticed that it had moved quite a distance. Obviously it had not moved. We had moved. We were being pulled along. I could not stop myself. I kept reaching for the ground with my feet, but I could not get my footing.
Suddenly the lifeguard came down from his stand and began running toward us with his flotation device. I didn't mind being saved, but I was only a few feet from the shore.
"I'm all right," I said, trying to wave him off.
But you know what? I wasn't all right. I couldn't stop myself. As he began swimming out, I thought, "I have got to get my feet on the ground." Finally, I planted myself.
"I'm OK," I shouted to him, and he waved and swam back in.
That is what temptation is like. You think you can handle it, but suddenly you are caught in its current.
To pray we won't be tempted and then place ourselves in a vulnerable situation is like thrusting our fingers into a fire and praying they won't be burned. We need a healthy respect of the enemy we face and of the temptation that he will utilize in our lives."
addendum: I don't want anyone to think I am oppossed to *snuggling* I'm not.
just, you know, not lying on a couch, watching movies in a dark room with someone who hasn't married me!
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