Courtship Isn't Pain Free

 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 10
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The world presents a very false concept of romance, teaching that when two people fall in love, everything will always be blissful and exciting. It suggests that "love means never having to say you are sorry". These kinds of false, godless principles cannot sustain true love through trials and testings.
Beloved young people, the courtship you are in—or the one you are praying about entering—is indeed a wonderful and exciting sphere. And though courtships won't always face conflicts, they will certainly meet with the waters of adversity at times.
If your relationship is directed by God's principles however, you and your partner will discover that these very times of trials produce and sustain the most beautiful and awesome displays of true, living love. "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness" (Judg. 14:1414And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. (Judges 14:14)).