{"id":54610,"date":"2018-11-15T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=54610"},"modified":"2022-09-30T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T02:07:26","slug":"thank-you-for-reaching-out-to-guide-me-when-i-needed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/thank-you-for-reaching-out-to-guide-me-when-i-needed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you for reaching out to guide me when I needed it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\nDear sir,\nIt&#8217;s me again. I know you won&#8217;t remember me, as you probably get hundreds of emails from all over the world. But I still remember you. Around three years back, I reached out to you for help regarding my relationship with an unbeliever.\nThey say love is blind. But sometimes love chooses to become blind and overlook all the clear warning signs, even when they are in plain sight.\nI had painted a future with her and fantasized about it every day, saying to myself, &#8220;Oh how wonderful it will be &#8230;&#8221; but God had His plans for me. Fast forward to today. It has been over two years now. I have left that girl in the past. We are no longer together, and I have no doubt about it that it was God&#8217;s hand that got me out of there.\nI am not in any relation with any girl now. I am focusing on getting closer to God. I am a bit scared of falling for the wrong person again though. It really scares me.\nI just wanted to say thank you for reaching out to guide me when I needed it. I thank God for you and for your work in my life. God bless you always sir.\nThanking you,\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>It is good to hear from you again. I don&#8217;t often have people let me know what happened.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to be scared of falling in love with the wrong person if you keep the teachings of God in mind.\u00a0 God tells us how to find a good spouse. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/a-good-mate\/\">A Good Mate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Dear sir, It&#8217;s me again. I know you won&#8217;t remember me, as you probably get hundreds of emails from all over the world. But I still remember you. Around three years back, I reached out to you for help regarding my relationship with an unbeliever. They say love is blind. But sometimes love chooses&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[127,149],"class_list":["post-54610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-about-this-site","tag-dating"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10954,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-there-any-significance-to-being-40-years-old-in-the-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":54610,"position":0},"title":"Is there any significance to being 40 years old in the Bible","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Do you happen to know if there is any significance to the age of 40 in New Testament times?\u00a0 We noticed on at least two separate occasions that the remark \"he is over 40\" is used.\u00a0 Once when Jesus healed the blind man and when the lame man was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27741,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/im-nervous-about-meeting-a-girl-i-met-over-the-internet\/","url_meta":{"origin":54610,"position":1},"title":"I&#8217;m nervous about meeting a girl I met over the Internet","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I met a girl over the Internet about a month ago. 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