Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!sundc!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: billy@tcom.stc.co.uk (Billy Khan) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: arranged marriages Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 90 09:13:16 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: STC New Southgate, London N11 1HB Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Hello, I can't say that I agree with arranged marriages, but I do understand that your respective parents want the best for you. All parents do, its all part of love. A friend of mine had a sort of similiar problem to you a little while ago. We prayed about it a lot and didn't seem to get a real convinving answer until one day when a few verses from Matthew came up in conversation. I can't remember the exact verse...if you are interested I will find it for you...write back and tell me. The main theme was this. '...Put your trust completely in the lord.' Now i know this might sound like old hat to a lot of people. But what we got out of it at the time was this. If we trust in God completely (IE 100% and i mean 100%!) Then the lord promises to deal with our problems in the best way. Its stated quite clearly in that passage how we are supposed to be....Not worrying about what we will eat, or wear, or be doing tomorrow and i can't see why that doesn't cover the area of personal relationships. So my advice is to just keep on persevering in prayer and trust that God will sort out the problem...believe me...he will! He did promise too after all! These verses won't really help you explain things to your parents..but they might help you. Don't ask the lord to give a nice verse...ask him to deal with the whole thing! Love and Prayers, Drew.