Is there such a thing? And if there is, what is it’s value.
I look to the cross. The ultimate dating picture. A crucified Christ for the love of His bride to be. The epic of love depicted and documented for humanity in the process of Christ. From creation to curse, from life to death, from the bracket of Time to the never ending open end of eternity. Can it be called dating? Or is it courtship? Is dating really a thing? Or is it a much shorter vision? A dabbling in an exploration of things not seen, a searching for things hoped for, things hoped for that are not even understood. There is a sure thing exhibited in courting. An intention. “I will be married”. An act of will and an act of faith. A trust in something greater than oneself. Where the sum of the parts is greater than the individual. Where the sacrifice of will and want enables the fullness of another. And the fullness of that other enables the fullness in oneself. A supernatural spiral rising upward and upward without end. The vision understood but not seen. The excitement and exhilaration of exploration into the deep unknown with the promise of great finding and great result.
Scary? Painful? I think so. Worthwhile, in fact, demanded to attain. Shall comfort and painless luxury reveal the depth of need one has for another? The need for the love of God? The denial of the horror of the demonstration of love on the cross? Does not the sacrifice prove the depth of the love? Is this a date or a commitment? Is dating even of the same genre as sacrificial love? Or is it merely self-love?
PainFree dating.......why and to what end?
Incredible! The thought to reconsider dating as even apart of the process God intended is interesting. Makes you think, have we been adding a step for the lack of intentional and substantial courtship? Are we so eager to take another step that we create them before the true commitment of marriage?