Ladies, once you have accepted and received Christ as your Lord and Savior, you're engaged spiritually. We're going to be married regardless because we're apart of the bride/body of Christ.
As the bride, we're waiting with great anticipating to be reunited with our groom who is Jesus Christ. Do you ever feel an impatient moment where you wish Jesus would come and get us now? Well, that's because we're aching to be reunited with him spiritually.
If we're not faithful to him, who is our spiritual bridegroom, while here on earth; then how can God entrust us with our earthly husband?
It's not about, what we think. God's way, his plan, his purpose, his design is for his glorification; but as his kids, his lets us in on it according to his will.
Why marriages or anything fail? Because they haven't let Christ in on the plan. Everything now has to be Christ-centered, because he knows how everything works and how to make it successful. But also they failed because of impatience. I mean, we're selfish creatures, we got some issues.
I sit back and think what if this or that about marriage but I don't think I ever thought about whether or not I included God in those plans. That's definitely a dis-service to him as our creator.
Romans 1:25 (KJV) "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen."
If we worship and serve the act of marriage more than God who created marriage, then we have a serious problem here.
As of right now, I am happy to let go my obssesiveness with being married because I need time to get to know my God first and foremost. (i've been saved almost 10 years and I'm just figuring that out, wow) I believe in my heart that God has a plan for me to be married but there is a difference between me being ready and him knowing that I'm ready. I may still need to grow a lot first. Even now, at home I'm still without cable and internet, but it's letting me appreciate what I have more because I didn't have it before technology really took over. Sometimes we just got to stop and think about what God has for us instead of what we want him to have for us. Then everything else will click into play, so to speak. (lets hope I keep this mindset when the cable and internet do come back on)
Matt 6:33 says point blank "see ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you"
So ladies, I challenge you that we all do this together.
1) confess unconfessed sin
2) tell God how you feel about marriage and the guy and then leave it alone
3) restart or renew your relationship with Christ
4) take care of yourself, physically, spiritually, mentally
5) get to know yourself
6) also love yourself
7) learn how to be content in your current season of singleness
As I type this, I am not thinking of this of my own accord (i'm not that smart when I have too much caffeine, lol) Which allows me to believe that this is God's message for all of us, including me. Let's just continue to cheer each other on and be supportive to each other.
More importantly we just trust and believe God, without that it's just an empty canvas without the paint.
Ok ladies, I gotta go because I only have 7 mins left on my lunch break.
Love ya!!!!!!