The child is in love, they've just finished college, they have a great job, and they are ready to settle down. It sounds like the ideal situation to me, yet there is this attitude of "you have to live your life first, then get married."
Somewhere along the lines the worldly way of thinking has crept up into Christian homes. How are we to encourage our children to be pure, if we are telling them to wait until they are 30 to get married? Does this mean that purity is no longer a valid option and we'll just conveniently forget that Godly commandment?
Stop looking at marriage as a curse and a hindrance, and see it as something that God has called a lot of us to do. Sometimes it's not about living your life so you can get married, and instead it's about getting married so you can live the life God has planned for you.
Don't encourage your children to live in any type of sin. Yet, encourage responsibility and maturity.
2 Timothy 2:22 Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. Follow anything that makes you want to do right. Pursue faith and love and peace, and enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.
