As you live your teen years through, even though you will have committed to Courtship, you are still going to desire love. And it will hurt, and ache, but I tell you now; it's not as bad as the pain experienced after having your heart broken. The old saying "Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all", could very well be one of the most deceitful and false sayings of all time. For all of us who have had their hearts broken, we may "get over it", but it never goes away. When you sit back and reflect on your life, and you think about that person that broke your heart, what will you be thinking about? You will be thinking about the lustful times that you had with that person, thus, betraying your spouse once again (and you will have done it with the same person as when you dated, so you will have thought lustful thoughts about that person in the long run, along with the fact that you dated them to begin with).
So what will fill that empty void where "love" would have gone? There is only one thing that will fill that void and keep you content until God introduces you to your spouse; God's love. When you have nothing else to fill that void, spend that time loving God (and to love God is to hate evil, so technically you have already started that path once you commit to Courtship). But there is no greater comfort for you than the Word of God. The Bible has unexplainable comfort within it's pages, and here's the best part; It doesn't matter if you fully understand what you are reading. Just the reading of the Word of God alone will bring such comfort to your life. Also (this is key to Courtship and a good marriage), by reading his word you will gain a deeper understanding of how God works in our lives. It doesn't matter if you read Mathew, Psalms, Proverbs, or Revelation. The whole Bible is about God's love and his power.
With the wisdom you get from your reading the Word, you will also gain discernment between right and wrong. And having that is key in marriage and in life. Let me give an example; Think back to your childhood, when you would get a Lego set, and wanted to put it together. What was the first step to accomplishing that goal? You would read the instructions, and step by step, you turn those individual blocks into a creation that you could never have figured out on your own. The Bible is our instruction manual, given to us by God for the soul purpose of helping us through life and so that we wouldn't be a clueless, hopeless case. Life in general is one big puzzle.
The big picture is, if we don't read the instruction manual (the Bible) now, we'll be doing nothing but play catch up when we're older. And you can't use what you don't have, so when you're older and start a family and need that wisdom and discernment, you won't have it. You will be reading frantically, trying to gain that knowledge so that you can use it then when you need it. But you can't just learn the Bible. It takes years to gain wisdom and discernment, and on that note, you will never fully master the Bible no matter how much you read It. That's the next best thing about the Bible; it never gets old. You may read something this year and think nothing of it, but then you might come back to it five years from now and think "How could I have missed this?" The Word of God is alive, and it will speak to your heart and soul as needed, and more.
The over all message here is don't waste your teen years on nothing but personal entertainment. Spend those years with God, and prepare for life, and the long run result of your Courtship, Marriage.
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