How much do you truly trust God?
We have seen the sayings, “Let go and Let
God.”
We can recite Jeremiah 29:11
We’ve been told all our lives that God has
a plan
But do we really trust Him?
What if I was to tell you that God’s plan
for your life didn’t involve marriage by the age of 23?
What if I was to tell you, it might not
involve marriage at all.
Would you still trust Him? Would you still
say He was good?
Now,
please don’t get me wrong, I am saying this to myself just as much as I’m
saying it to you.
But, I feel we, as Christians, are missing
it.
We have single classes at church.
Older people, and married friends
jump at the opportunity to fix you up with the new guy that is visiting.
I’m
not saying this is wrong
On the contrary, I think meeting people at
church is a great place to do it.
But
sometimes it is like they are trying to F I X it. Like singleness means you’re
broken.
I was told recently that God would provide
the right guy in my life; I just needed to learn to “Truly be satisfied in Him
first.”
I’m sorry…what? I really couldn’t believe my ears.
..So
what you’re telling me is I’m single because I’m not satisfied in the Lord?
THAT IS NOT TRUE. But more importantly it’s
not biblical.
What scares me the most is that girls
really are believing this lie. They believe that they have to “fix” their
relationship with God SO that the right guy can be provided. When in reality,
that could not be more wrong. When we allow that idea to come into our head we
will run into a serious problem. We no longer seek the Lord for the pureness of knowing Him; we will be
seeking Him for His gifts.
So I’m going to ask a question that even
makes me uncomfortable to think about,
Would you still love and seek The Lord,
even if His plan for you didn’t involve a guy?
I think an even more important question to
ask is; why is this question so scary?
Our purpose on this earth isn’t to get married. Your life won’t begin when you
meet “the one” and your life won’t stop if you don’t.
Now I’m
not saying that I think just because you're 20 and single means you’re going to
be single forever
What I am saying
is, don’t let your desire for an earthly relationship take the place of your
eternal one.
We are not promised a husband, 2 kids, and
a white picket fence. BUT WHAT WE ARE PROMISED IS SO MUCH GREATER.
Instead of worrying or fearing that we aren’t
going to get those things, turn your eyes to what we have. DON’T MISS IT.
You have a savior that LOVES you. Right now, he is reaching
out for you. He promises to never leave or forsake you. His love never ends and
at His right hand our pleasures forevermore. Trust in that promise.
The earthly desires of our heart are
fading.
But our savior is pursing us right now. Go outside at sunset and look at the sky. Go
out to the country in the pure darkness and get swept away by the beauty of the
stars. Everything like that is Gods way of showing His love for us,
Don’t
miss out on a relationship with the creator, while you are too consumed in a
fleeting relationship with creation.
So was my purpose in writing this?
To hopefully make you see that without
realizing it, we have made marriage an
idol in our lives. Especially in the Christian bubble. We talk about
being pursued, and how we can’t wait until we can have a Godly guy come into
our lives. We daydream at church about the cute boy in front of us taking
notes, or maybe we go to certain events because “good Christian boys will be
there”
(don’t act like you aren’t guilty of this)
Like I said earlier, I am afraid we are
missing it.
My
fear is that the most of us will graduate college, guyless and
Godless.
We will be tired of chasing after this idea
that we are promised a guy. We will begin to harden our hearts to The Lord
because we aren’t getting what we thing
we deserve. We will let doubt sink into us and ultimately we will give up
on The Lord because what’s the point.
So my prayer for every girl facing this
road right now is that we will stop putting a guy at the end of our goals. That
we will see that we CAN trust in His plan, no matter what that means. Don’t let
todays view of singleness ruin your trust in The Lord.
“Let
us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run
with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder
and perfecter of our faith.” Hebrews 12:1
Please Remember that:
Singleness
isn’t a disease
Nothing is wrong with you
You are worthy of Love
I promise you God is good no matter if you’re
20 and single or 40 and single.
You
are the crown of creation. You are His bride. That will always be enough.
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