Dating is a battle field

[ServantStrike]

Dating is a battlefield. You get shot down, you get back up and try again.

Here is a song I will use to illustrate this
[video=youtube;VRiBMG26-DE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRiBMG26-DE[/video]


Here's the part where you're asking someone out:

5 minutes till we hit the beach
Men reduced to boys, fear will not release
Smell of death around, it's coming for me
Hear someone scream you'd better keep your head down

Here's the point where all the blood rushes to your head, you hear ringing in your ears, and you have butterflies in your stomach:

You feel terror over taking you
Captivates your mind, now you're gonna puke
You run with the blind, don't know what to do
Hear someone scream you'd better keep your head down

Here's when you get shot down

When the enemy flies and tears they fall
Breaking the grounds that brace your fortress walls
I see them coming for you
They're coming gunning

And here is where you turn to Christ in your broken ness

I rise above your fall
Taking your place I will destroy them all
My child you are mine
Accept my sacrifice

And here is what happens when you realize that it's never about you in your life

So many years later now that battles won
But it still remains just in a different form
This is not a battle fought with sticks and stones
This is not a war against flesh and bone

Here's where it clicks, and where a potential spouse who is a Christian will start to see true potential in you

You know the answer, you know the answer
Pick up your cross and do another lap son
I will work through you

And one more time, in case you need to remind yourself where you should be focused if failure occurs. Maybe you get shot at by suitors, I don't know.

I am not afraid of what they can do to my body
Cause it's my heart that lives on
I'm not ashamed to face the pain
And scream your name, scream your name

 

[ServantStrike]

I used this analogy weeks ago, but here is a clip from the movie itself.

[video=youtube;xPZ6eaL3S2E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZ6eaL3S2E[/video]


Malone: You said you wanted to get Capone. Do you really wanna get him? You see what I'm saying is, what are you prepared to do?
Ness: Anything within the law.
Malone: And *then* what are you prepared to do? If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way. Because they're not gonna give up the fight, until one of you is dead.
Ness: I want to get Capone! I don't know how to do it.
Malone: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?

 

[jimmydiggs]

When you do it wrong, yes.

 

[ServantStrike]

When you do it wrong, yes.

I'd argue it is when you do it right too.

Expecting that you'll never meet a person who doesn't like you romantically is setting yourself up for a fall. Maybe I'm too frazzled to communicate as clearly as I had hoped. The entire message was simply to get back and move on, don't let bitterness take root.

 

[jimmydiggs]

I'd argue it is when you do it right too.

Expecting that you'll never meet a person who doesn't like you romantically is setting yourself up for a fall. Maybe I'm too frazzled to communicate as clearly as I had hoped. The entire message was simply to get back and move on, don't let bitterness take root.

It becomes a battlefield when following the worlds ways. Hence, battle of the sexes.

 

[rachelsedge]

I like how you interpreted it and it's a pretty cool song. It was stuck in my head for a while after listening to it.

 

[ultrasann]

I'd argue it is when you do it right too.

Expecting that you'll never meet a person who doesn't like you romantically is setting yourself up for a fall. Maybe I'm too frazzled to communicate as clearly as I had hoped. The entire message was simply to get back and move on, don't let bitterness take root.

Now this is something I'm struggling with. Every time I think about this topic, I always get this part of my brain telling me things like “no one will ever give you a chance when it comes to relationships” and “you'll never be good enough for this person” and stuff. It's annoying. I just wanna smack some sense into myself and stop worrying so much as if God doesn't hold my future.

 

[colalella2891]

I think there's a song called "Love is a Battlefield" too. I'm too lazy to look it up for sure though.

 

[didymos]

I think there's a song called "Love is a Battlefield" too. I'm too lazy to look it up for sure though.

Then why bother mentioning it?

[video=youtube;D0EysM1iNMk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EysM1iNMk[/video]

 

[rachelsedge]

I think there's a song called "Love is a Battlefield" too. I'm too lazy to look it up for sure though.

Oh, I was thinking of the Jordan Sparks one! Not sure if that's the one you're referring to...

 

[colalella2891]

Oh, I was thinking of the Jordan Sparks one! Not sure if that's the one you're referring to...

I could have been. I remembered hearing it in a movie or something.