Looking for Guidance
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Email date: 2005/07/25 Hello & thanks for providing your great website, a great service to the world! I would like to ask your organization for some advice, here is my story - I am 22 and I am a believer, my girlfriend is also a Christian and I love her very much. I hope that she will be my wife in the future. I believe very much in waiting until I find the right woman and in marriage before having sex. my girlfriend believes in this too, but she had a previous relationship for 2 years and they were both sexually active with each other. She knows now that this was wrong, but she also believed at the time that it was wrong too but still she did it. This is a hard thing for me to accept & it still makes me very sad sometimes. I want to forget & move on but I am finding it very hard. Can your organization provide any advice on this or tell me a website that provide information that could help me? I'm sorry if I troubled you, please don't feel like you have to reply. I will understand completely :) Have a nice day & god bless Replied: 2005/07/26 Hi Robert, Have you ever heard the phrase "What would Jesus do?" It's very popular here, but I'm not sure about Ireland. Ask yourself that question regarding your decision and your feelings about your girlfriend and you future. First be sure to pray, then search the scriptures. Read about the woman at the well who was a Samaritan, and the woman who was caught in adultery. When she gave him a cup of water and asked why Jesus even spoke to her. He did not hesitate to continue the relationship and because of her many people learned about His ministry. To the woman caught in adultery, he said "Where are your accusers. If there are none, neither will I accuse you, but go and sin no more." Read about the backgrounds of the apostles. One of them was a tax collector which in those days meant he was not to be trusted. My point is that Jesus, the Son of God, didn't seek out those that were saved but those that needed being saved. And when asked by the Apostles how to pray, remember the wonderful line in the Our Father where we pray, "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." Think about all of this, Robert, and meditate on it too. Marriage is a lifetime commitment and you will need to be at peace and resolve this issue and your feelings before you proceed. If there is one thing I am sure of, it is this. If your girlfriend has asked God for His Divine Mercy and Forgiveness and if she has agreed to sin no more, He certainly has forgiven her. I hope I have been of some help. God bless,
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