#mantomanletter

First, I wanted to say I’m sorry for dishonoring you. That’s why I exceeded to my boundaries. I held your hand, I kissed you, I hugged you, I put my arm on your shoulder, yet it is not the right time for it. I’m standing up and writing this letter to you as a man taking responsibility of the mistakes that happened. It’s all my fault.

Second, I wanted to tell you, now I understand how we ought to date. Not now as we are still students. But now, let’s be accountable to people, live in the Light and be in faith that God will take care of you and me as we go through this life. I wanted to lead you with security in my heart, not with a hole in my chest waiting for you to fill it. I need God to fill it. And I’m sure that hole in your heart will be filled by God as well.

I want both of us to seek God first before anything else. It’s gonna be much exciting to date, with you and me being successful, established and fulfilled in our calling and in life. It’s gonna be more exciting to date if we both are ready-made by God. See the difference of dating now, and dating later inside the success of our calling. I don’t want us to date now, ‘cause we’ll just pull each other down to our emotions, and blind each other to the good, pleasing, and perfect calling of God in our lives.

Now, I’m looking forward for both of us pursuing Him and His call first before I pursue you. I’m looking forward with much excitement to God fulfilling His plans to you and your family, as well as mine, before I pursue you. I’m looking forward for both of us to be ready to love each other the way Christ loved us individually, before I pursue you. I’m looking forward to reaching out the lost people and sharing them the love of Christ, before I pursue you and do that with you. I’m looking forward to both of us being successful and established and fulfilled in Christ and His calling, before I pursue and date you. I want to learn responsibility, maturity, manning up, selflessness, before I pursue you. All because I wanted to pursue you, the way Christ did to you. Why? Because..

I learned submitting my plans and emotions to Him. Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but His purposes will stand forever. What’s important is we be ready and we co-battle this fight with others now. ‘Cause, in faith, I know at the end of fulfilling the call God gave me, He will just say, “Date the one you want. I will take care of it,” as if it’s a reward. Because you are -- a reward, a PRIZE BOUGHT RICHLY BY THE LIFE AND BLOOD OF THE SAVIOR.

I will wait for you as we run the race with endurance. I will let God train me to be a warrior to learn how to fight for what is right and to fight with perseverance. Let’s let God establish us first, because I want our relationship (from friends to a married couple), to be an example to the other young people who date out of success in their purpose. I want them to see, that when we pursue Christ first, every thing else follows and we lack no good thing. I want them to know as well, that success is not found in riches or high positions or ownership of many companies. It is found in pursuing God and fulfilling the call of God in our lives.

Let us be in faith for His plans, and let’s be excited for these plans to be fulfilled. Let’s keep all His words and put it in our lives and live it. Let us be courageous and let’s take heart. Let us not rush things, but keep in pace with the Lord.

I’m looking forward for you, in the future, with success!