Introduction (Letters to Young Lover)

Letters To Young Lovers

INTRODUCTION

I LOVE YOU

“I LOVE YOU!” HOW SPECIAL ARE THOSE WORDS BETWEEN TWO YOUNG PEOPLE! BUT EVEN MORE WONDERFUL THEY BECOME WHEN SPOKEN TO US BY OUR SVIOUR WHO WANTS US TO BE HAPPY AND FIND JOY IN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER.

CHRIST HAS COMPARED HIS LOVE FOR THE CHURCH TO THE LOVE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE. THE SCRIPTURES CONTAIN TENDER LOVE STORIES SUCH AS THAT OF JACOB AND RACHEL, AND THE MOVING STROY OF RUTH, THE MOABITE, WHO THROUGH HER MARRIAGE TO BOAZ BECAME A LINK IN THE GENEALOGY OF THE MESSIAH.

In Control (Letters to Young Lover – 5)

In Control

Power in Christ for Self-control

All are accountable for their actions while in this world upon probation. All have power to control their actions if they will. If they are weak in virtue an purity of thoughts and acts, they can obtain help from the Friend of the helpless. Jesus is acquainted with all the weakness of human nature, and, if entreated, will give strength to overcome the most powerful temptations. All can obtain this strength if they seek for it in humility.

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” [1 Cor. 10:31] Here is a principle which lies at the foundation of every act, thought, and motive; the consercration of the entire being, both physical and mental, to the control of the Spirit of God… You can do all things through Christ, who strengtheneth you.

Is It Really Love? (Letters To Young Lover – 3)

Is It Really Love?

He[Satan] is busily engaged in influencing those who are wholly unsuited to each other to unite interests. He exults in this work, for by it he can produce more misery and hopeless woe to human family than by exercising his skill in any other direction.

Many marriages can only be productive of misery; and yet the minds of the youth run in this channel because Satan leads them there, making them believe that they must be married in order to be happy, when they have not the ability to control themselves or support a family. Those who are not willing to adapt themselves to each other’s disposition, so as to avoid unpleasant differences and contentions, should not take the step.

Finding The Right Mate (Letters to Young Lover – 2)

Finding The Right Mate

Be Practical

Before assuming the responsibilities involved in marriage, young men and young women should have such an experience in practical life as will prepare them for its duties and its burdens.

Since both men and women have a part in homemaking, boys as well as girls should gain a knowledge of household duties. To make a bed and put a room in order, to wash dishes, to prepare a meal, to wash and repair his own clothing, is a training that need tnot make any boy less manly; it will make him happier and more useful.

There are very many girls who have married and have families, who have but little practical knowledge of the duties devolving upon a wife and mother. They can read, and play upon an instrument of music; but they cannot cook. They cannot make good bread, which is very essential to the health of the family. They cannot cut and make garments, for they never learned how. They considered these thing unessential, and in their married life they are as dependent upon some one to do these things for them as are their own little children. 20

Marriage – a Foretaste of Heaven (Letters To Young Lover – 1 )

Marriage – a Foretaste of Heaven

The warmth of true friendship and the love that binds the hearts of husband and wife are a foretaste of heaven.

God has ordained that there should be perfect love and perfect harmony between those who enter into the marriage relation.

Let bride and bridegroom in the presence of the heavenly universe pledge themselves to love one another as God has ordained they should. – In Heavenly Places, p. 2012. 11

Man was not made to dwell in solitude; he was to be a social being. Without companionship the beautiful scenes and delightful employments of Eden would have failed to yield perfect happiness. Even communion with angels could not have satisfied his desire for sympathy and companionship. There was none of the same nature to love and to be loved.

God Himself gave Adam a companion. He provided “an help meet for him” – a helper corresponding to him – one who was fitted to be his companion, and who could be one with him in love and sympathy. Eve was created from a rib taken from the side of Adam, signifying that she was not to control him as the head, nor to be trampled under his feet as an inferior, but to stand by his side as an equal,  to be loved and protected by him. A part of man, bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, she was his second self, showing the close union and the affectionate attachment that should exist in this relation. “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh;  but nourisheth and cherisheth it.” Ephesians 5:29. “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,  and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one.”