My children, who are all in their 20's, have been raving about Josh Harris' books for years having read them as they came out. For the first time, I picked up his first two books to read: "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" and "Boy Meets Girl" after some questions came up in a singles ministry my wife and I are involved in.
To my surprise and joy, I found that Josh had arrived at the same conclusions I had come to as a young Christian single over thirty-five years ago when I was 25. As a Bible-hungry new believer with a sinful sexual past, it became obvious pretty quickly that Christ's promise of an abundant life called for a radical change in my behavior. As I grew in Scriptural knowledge, my conclusions and living mirrored Josh Harris' teaching to a "T".
When I was 32, a 'chance' encounter with a pretty blonde young women whom I'd known briefly many years earlier, brought me face to face with my wife-to-be. Back then, she was already a strong Christian while I was a wild heathen who rode a motorcycle and by the grace of God never got arrested or killed. We had nothing in common. However, one night in bed she had "once in a lifetime" encounter in which she thought the Lord told her that I was to be her future husband. At first she refused to believe it because I was not a Christian, but she felt that God was insistent so she began to pray for me - for over seven years it turned out. Through the grapevine, she heard that I'd eventually become a Christian and other tidbits. And in the intervening years, God took the craziness out of me and grew me up in Christ.
One day, all those years later, a buddy and I bumped into her. When we were reintroduced, I remembered her deep Christian character and how I'd been attracted to her but turned off by her Christianity. I also remembered hearing that she neither dated nor had ever married. When we met this time and I looked into her eyes, I suddenly knew that she was my wife to be. It was not until after we became engaged that her family asked her if she'd ever told me the "rest of the story." And that's when I heard about God's faithfulness to a young woman's obedience to wait upon the Lord.
She and I had both committed our ways to the Lord, lived faithful lives for Christ in the intervening years, and he brought us together at the perfect time and place for us - and our marriage has been blessed for it.
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