neenzmj
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I bought Steve Harvey’s book because I thought it would be interesting to read what type of advice he was offering. I didn’t make it through the first few pages before coming across several things I disagreed with. However, after some additional thought, I realized that there was much good in it because it magnified the importance of being equally yoked with a man of God.
In his book Steve tells women that a man who has not come to a place of being fulfilled in his life (job, money and title) will not be able to focus on a relationship with a woman. He says that it is these three things that drive a man and make up his DNA. Even though I’m married, I felt disturbed by this. It seemed to me that a woman involved with a man who had all his fulfillment tied up in the temporal things of life would be treading in a relationship built on sand – every little wind or, in this case, shakeup of the economy, could send the man (and the relationship) off it’s foundation. And if that’s the case, where does it leave the woman in the end? Should she expect to be placed on the backburner whenever things aren’t lining in his life and he has to go back out and “fulfill himself?” God has made it clear that HE is our foundation and that we should not place our hope and trust in money and jobs and power.
If you’re single I want to encourage you to hold out for a man of God. Don’t settle for the excuses from someone who can’t commit to you until everything “lines up in his life.” Don’t allow anyone to keep you dangling on the hope of a relationship that may never materialize. As our economy has proven -- jobs, money, cars, homes -– they can all be taken away from us in the blink of an eye, but the promises of God last forever.
In his book Steve tells women that a man who has not come to a place of being fulfilled in his life (job, money and title) will not be able to focus on a relationship with a woman. He says that it is these three things that drive a man and make up his DNA. Even though I’m married, I felt disturbed by this. It seemed to me that a woman involved with a man who had all his fulfillment tied up in the temporal things of life would be treading in a relationship built on sand – every little wind or, in this case, shakeup of the economy, could send the man (and the relationship) off it’s foundation. And if that’s the case, where does it leave the woman in the end? Should she expect to be placed on the backburner whenever things aren’t lining in his life and he has to go back out and “fulfill himself?” God has made it clear that HE is our foundation and that we should not place our hope and trust in money and jobs and power.
If you’re single I want to encourage you to hold out for a man of God. Don’t settle for the excuses from someone who can’t commit to you until everything “lines up in his life.” Don’t allow anyone to keep you dangling on the hope of a relationship that may never materialize. As our economy has proven -- jobs, money, cars, homes -– they can all be taken away from us in the blink of an eye, but the promises of God last forever.