In the last few weeks in discipleship class, we've been talking about love, relationships, purity, sex, and etc. Last week we discussed romance with God. This was something they'd never heard of and it was very difficult for them to grasp and process such a foreign idea of a God that wants to romance us and to be romanced. But they loved the thought of it! We encouraged them to read the Bible so that they can get to know this God that loves them so much and I shared a personal experience of romance with God when I was in a little village lying under the stars with Jesus in Mexico.
This week we had a special guest share with the teens. My friend Melanie, who works with pregnant teenagers in the area, came to share about 'The Perfect Family.' Some of the kids believed that perfect families do actually exist. Others did not. You might be wondering yourself what the perfect family is. The perfect family is a husband, a wife and the love of God present. Just the way God planned families to be. With God in the middle, you can't go wrong. Your family is perfect.
Melanie did such a great job addressing several issues that some of the teens are involved in, and that we are deeply concerned about. Some of the young girls are involved with guys that are much older than them and some are also in abusive relationships. We encouraged them to wait and let God bring them that perfect husband or wife, set apart just for them, instead of looking for them on their own. One of the girls asked that if she was a child in the midst of an "imperfect" family, did that mean that she could not have the perfect family? A family the way God had planned? My heart rejoices when we can share with them the awesome plans that God has for them! Plans to "prosper [them] and not to harm [them], plans to give [them] hope and a future." (Jer 29:11) We can tell them of how God restores! We can tell them that they don't have to be their parents or grandparents, their siblings or their friends. They can have the future that God has planned for them!
Please pray for these young boys and girls, who only know the reality that they've grown up with. Pray that God's love would be so strong and so real to them and that it would change them. Pray that they can take a stand and choose to be different, to be the exception.
Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
-Song of Solomon 8:4
That is beautiful Amelia! I'm so proud that you get the opportunity to work with these young people! What a blessing you are to them and I KNOW it is a blessing to you!
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