Why I Don't Date...
(this is my friends and my opinion... not to be said as truth but just what God has told us.)
Here is my advice for every teenager(and some young adults) on the issue of dating... DON'T. It's simple but sounds crazy, I thought so at first too. I don't date and I'd like to try to explain why. So for the rest of you who are still reading here are the reasons I chose this way.
1st off your teenage years are the only time you can go after God with everything in you... when your a little kid you don't have the freedom to serve God or the respect from others to do all that you can for God now and when your an adult you have a job and bills and taxes and all that other stuff that keeps you from God.
2nd, when you have a girl/boy friend your emotions are divided. God wants your whole heart. He doesn't want to share it with anything or anyone. You may argue 'well how am I supost to find my husband/wife'. first off at 13 or 16 or even 18 you really arent ready to marry you shouldn't even worry about it, you have years left till it'll even be time to find a husband/wife. And dating isn't the way to find a husband it's not preparing you for marriage but it's preparing you for devorce because you are learning to break up and it's hard at first but it gets easier and teaches you to love one person after another and then break up. God will give you the person you are supost to marry when the time is right, but right now he wants you to seek him for all your intamacy and love and wants and desires not another human that he created.
3rd, it kills your walk with God, I've seen to many of my friends who were going after God fall because they get involved. I have seen some people who were radical after God preaching to their friends getting people saved changing their school and family and then they meet a girl/boy and it started off fime but soon they started to care more for each other and their fire for God demisishes, even in the strongest Christians (even with a clean relationship). They seem to always be together and they start to love each other more and God less until they are so far away they don't know what happened.
Dating is a dangerous ground and I don't want to even tempt God. I don't want to let satan have the smallest opening into my life I love God and want to follow him. That doesn't mean that I still don't feel like I want to have a boy tell me thay love me and just have a guy that's devoted to me, but I've seen the price and I have seen how much God has dome for me, and it's not worth it. believe me.
Thank you for your time... I hope that this has shown you the reasons I choose not to date. Here's another page of a friend of mine who explains the Christian alternatives to dating it explained a lot about dating, courting and betrothal. I think that betrothal is what I will go with although I don't know about if my parents or another adult will give permission. I know that right now I'm not having to worry about it, all I want is God! Well, God bless.