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No man is perfect.
He will love God but he won’t be perfect.
It’s important to keep this in mind because you may meet a man who’s
still “in his process.” He’s in a growth stage with God and is taking the time
to evolve and shed some of the old ways that are no longer in his best interest,
as well as become more intimate in his relationship with Him.
There is no perfect way to journey through this stage. For various reasons
you may not recognize that he’s in it. You may have skipped this process or it
could be different from your own, so you may not understand or struggle to
respect where he is.
For example, I’ll never forget this time I was invited to do a speaking
event at someone’s house.
The organizer had a group of women over and one, who’s pretty much the
most respected woman in her church, approached me after I spoke (I
separated the conversation as I did before):
The Woman: I’m fifty-one years old, never been married, and really want
to but I don’t know what to do at this point.
Me: In all those years, have you ever been proposed to?
The Woman: Yes. I’ve been proposed to three times.
It gets better…
Me: What happened? Did you decline all of them?
The Woman: Yes.
Me: Why?
The Woman: Oh, because they weren’t at the level spiritually where they
needed to be.
Me: Oh. So you decided for yourself that they weren’t good enough
spiritually, or at the level you felt they should be, meaning matching yours so
to speak, but did you ever stop and ask God?
The Woman: No.
Moral of the story: just because you have evolved to a certain level,
doesn’t mean the man that doesn’t match it should be automatically
dismissed.
To be clear, I’m not saying to get with him now in his current phase. This
is why praying and asking
God, and getting His consultation is so important. It may be a situation
where this guy needs some time.
Chances are, if he needs some time, there are some things you need to
work on as well, and then you two will come back together. But if you
completely dismiss it without going to God because he doesn’t pass YOUR
test, you could be shooting yourself in the foot. His love of God may not