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 Friends with benefits.

So, I was talking to a young woman this morning. She is in her 20s and is smart and good looking young lady. I asked her about her weekend and she told me she spent it with her friend. Oh, I said, not your boyfriend? She kinda struggled with the words to tell me yes, but not really. I asked her what that meant? Well, we have not called ourselves that. I asked her how do you introduce each other and she said as friends. I asked her if she loved him and after some struggling she said yes but you cant say that, you have to wall it in. And I asked her if love could be walled? ( which is where the idea from the poem below came from) Bottom line she said they were friends with benefits. I asked her who that really benefits? I told her she was worth more than that. She is not the first young person I have spoken to who are afraid to commit to a relationship. It seems that the 20 something generation are terribly insecure? Here is the poem .................

Can love truly be walled
Does it really matter what a relationship is called
Even if we deny the word for fear of rejection
I think what is really happening is called protection

So, you have given what you have away
Do you really think he is gonna stay?
You love him but you cannot say it aloud
Your introduced as a friend when he is with the crowd

A friend, really? Is that all it is?
Is this what you imagined before your first kiss
When you dreamed of love and being swept off your feet
He can sleep with someone else and he is not even a cheat

And so love dwells deep within your heart
Are you truly close or are you really worlds apart
Is he there for the benefits and that's all he really wants
And dreams of relationships are nothing more than taunts

And so love is real and it never can be walled
No matter if your "only" a friend and that's all your ever called
This is not your destiny you are called to something higher
A commitment, a promise, a ring, is what you should require

 2017/2/20 18:31
StirItUp
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 Re: Friends with benefits.

Amen brother Frank. Beautifully stated.

Commitment is a word this generation, in general, shies away from


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William

 2017/2/20 23:10Profile
beekpr
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Joined: 2011/7/12
Posts: 83


 Re: Friends with benefits.

The tragedy of this generation is that they never experience the unspeakable beauty of true romantic love as fulfilled in godly marriage. When couples have lived in immorality, I doubt whether they can have a proper spiritual intimacy even in marriage without first truly repenting of and renouncing their past sins.
The Holy Spirit has inspired me over a period of about forty years to chronicle my heart's feelings about love in a series of sonnets. The first were about yearning for true love, then about discovering it and finally telling about the experience. This is one of my more recent sonnets written for my wife after many years of marriage.

Eureka!

Happy the man whose heart can safely rest
In her sweet love with whom his heart is bound.
From God's Own Hand he has a treasure found
Beyond all wealth this vain world could contest.
With jealous care he guards this very best
Of earthly joys. Her presence does surround
Him with a gentle peace. 'Tis hallowed ground -
That tranquil haven by the twain possessed.

Adversity cannot cause it despair.
Through woe or weal it constant does remain.
Its vibrance is sustained by ceaseless prayer.
Its Heavenly Source can never fail or wain.

All praise to God Who made this blessing mine!
For such pure love as this, my dear, is thine!

David

 2017/2/21 19:20Profile





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