Stop Depriving-1 Cor. 7:5

       Sorry that I am just now writing another entry. I know it has been awhile since I wrote one but I have been really busy with work and family things. This is something very special that I came across during one of my work breaks this week and I just had to share. I came across it because I have been feeling this certain feeling and I wanted to know why I was feeling the way I was. I was so confused at first but then finding this verse helped me a little to sort out those feelings. Here is the verse and a meaning on one word in the verse:

"Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control."-Corinthians 7:5

Deprive-"To remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons)

       This verse really means a lot to me. Why is God, all of the sudden, showing it to me when I've needed it all my life. It talks about stop taking enjoyment away from other people. Devote to prayer and them turn back if God is willing. I've been depriving myself and my guy friends of fun things because I have been worrying. I've been saying things that seem fine but when I really think about them, they're not. It is funny or strange how a guy friend will tell me to back off nicely. It makes me rethink my actions and prayer a little deeper. 
       If they are only a crush, like in high school, then I forget about them completely. The close guy friends I have noticed a lot lately that I hate to take whatever they are enjoying away from them by bothering them. It is such a good and happy feeling for me to see them happy and having a blast at what they love what they do. I would rather be devoted in prayer for them then messing up their enjoyment.
        Another big word is "agreement" in the verse. I would rather be in agreement and on the same page with them because that is one way to stop worrying all the time of them. I just love to see the joy on people's faces when we don't deprive them of the things they love. Do you think that is what's wrong with today's marriages? They are self centered instead of God-centered, then other person/partner centered like they are suppose to be. People need their own things to enjoy because if we were all the same, the world wouldn't be a fun place to live. 
         So why try to change someone into a person we want them to be or like you? How can that make things fun? That would get so boring pretty fast, I would think. The message here, I think, is: Just to love the person that God made you to be, who God made your friends to be, who God made your partner be, and the people around you to be.