My Birthday Present

It was my birthday yesterday (February 6th) and I got flowers from Mike.

Blessed

I am so blessed to be dating someone who has a lot of the same moral and values. I am blessed because this person also has a super big heart for God. I am also blessed because this person is willing to go through the different trials/tests that God is giving me.

Roses From Mike

I got some roses from Mike. a red and a white rose to be exact. With the red rose I took some pictures of it with my purity ring.

Did I mention that I really like flowers and it was a lot of fun to get some roses? If I remember correctly this is the first res rose that got from Mike.

Dress-Up

I get to dress-up. Tonight Mikey is taking me out to dinner so I get to do my hair and spend some extra time on my make-up. I also get to wear a new dress. I am actually excited to put on a dress.

1 Corinthians 7

For my quiet time I am reading 1 Corinthians and last night/ today I working on reading 1 Corinthians 7. 1 Corinthians 7 is about marriage. Before you get scared/ freak-out I am NOT getting married yet.

Anyway, back to 1 Corinthians 7. First off it took me 2 days to read 1 Corinthians 7 because there was so much information I was a bit overwhelmed (but the Bible does that to me most of the time) with what God had to say about being single, dating, and marriage. Before you get on me and say, "Ummm Kiah 1 Corinthians is about marriage." Please remember that the Bible has a lot of stories and lessons in it about everything possible.

"I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs—how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband. I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord." 1 Corinthian 7:32-35 (NIV)

So this is pretty cool. I think its God saying that while we are single and not dating anybody we have one person to impress. That person would be God. But, when we are dating there is more then one person to impress. Those people would be God and the person we are dating. Now, only because we are human we will usually end up working more to impress the person we are dating. Actually, we should really be working on impressing God. God is the one that brought you guys together.

I think the point of 1 Corinthians 7:32-37 is to let people know while it is awesome that we are dating/ married to someone we need to work on a relationship that is like the relationship we had with Him before we started dating or were married.