Keith switched elementary schools in 5th grade and became best friends with a boy that lived down the street from me. Every day after school, when my friend Brooke and I were outside playing, Keith and Chad went up and down the street trying to get our attention. Sometimes that meant riding their bikes, making sure to do a cool trick as they passed us. Othertimes, they would play loudly in Chad's front yard, making sure we knew they were there. But if Brooke and I were playing basketball in her driveway, they would walk up and down the sidewalk bouncing a basketball, waiting for an invitation to play H-O-R-S-E.
Keith would repeat this attention-getting ritual off an on over the next several years because he already decided he was going to marry me. His woo-ing skills were similar to that of a red-capped manakin and although annoying at the time, it was always entertaining. I'm so grateful that Keith didn't give up on his pursuit of me, but I'm even more grateful that a Holy, Righteous God would actively pursue stubborn, sinful me.
Single ladies, don't give in to someone who isn't willing to display the character of God to you, someone who isn't willing to actively pursue you and prove that you can trust him with your heart. You want someone to protect your heart and make your emotional and physical purity a priority. If he isn't willing to "guard and keep" you before getting married, it is not likely that he will willing to step into that role in the future.
"Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it." {Proverbs 4:23}
