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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Oh, it’s more than just the fear of being persecuted. When we choose to live lives that are not pleasing to the Lord, we do so because we fear missing out on fun, or fear that our idols of dependency will be snatched away, or fear God’s way won’t effectively get the job done, or fear we will be pulled out of our comfort zone, or fear that it is going to cost us too much. The list continues, but it all comes back to fear, and fear results because we walk by sight and a lack of faith in God’s promises (cf. 2 Cor. 5:7). We don’t always live to please God because we think we know better than God as to what it takes to make us more productive and content and happy.
Randy Smith

Dating is like a minefield laden with live bombs that destroy or wound almost everyone who enters it. If this field takes the lives of 43% of all Christian young people and wounds almost all others, why do we keep sending our children into it? Would we put our children on a plane that had a 43% chance of crashing, or give them food that had a 43% chance of being poisoned? No? Why, then, do we take risks with them morally?
Reb Bradley