By David Schoenefeld
“What am I Thinking?” Here I am
—22-years-old, just — graduated from college (an all-male college, at that), and I have decided to enter into marriage three months after graduating. What am I thinking?
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I hear this comment all the time from friends and associates where I work. Many of them say I’m too young—that these years in my life are meant to be spent free from commitment, free from consequence, and free from thought. They tell me to do what I want, when I want, and if it feels good, do it twice. As easy and fun as that life sounds, I’ve come to realize that this advice is coming from people who live for the moment and rarely think of the future — certainly not into the realm of eternity. I prefer to get my advice from someone who is “otherworldly”; someone who is not con-
strained by time and space, but who created time and space: a Creator who can see all, do all, and knows all.This Creator is revealed to us in His written Word. This isn’t to say that Christine and I made our decision to get married through some personal divine revelation from God. Nor was it done on a whim. Rather, it was a process that we spread over weeks of conversation and contemplation. There was no question that we loved each other enough to spend every day together for the rest of our lives. Whether we had the maturity for such a sacred
