I am realizing that when I WANT something, God will take his precious time. Do you know how painful it is to wait?? The key word over the past few weeks has been WAIT. It has come up over and over and over again. At the Next> retreat I wrote a song called I Wait For You. I've been talking to some friends about "someone" and the connection between all of them is the word WAIT. AHHHHHH!!! The song that is linked to this entry is helping me to do just that. Wait. God makes that decision as to when he will bless with that relationship. If I follow hard after Him now, he bless in ways that I have never experienced before. Sometimes I've felt like I'm not being given anything by God because of the attitude I have towards certain things, but this is not true. He has been so faithful to me. He has revealed things to me that make me so excited I just want to fall to my knees in thanks!
On the topic of relationships, God is really challenging me there. I need to love him fully FIRST, before anyone else. Only then will place someone in my life.
Thanks for reading. Listen to the song linked. Click on the title Relationships to hear it. I hope you are encouraged by it as much as I am.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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I so appreciate your honesty. I do know how painful it is to wait for that special someone and for many other things(tick tock tick tock - that's the sound of my biological clock ticking away :)
I don't know. . . In our fallen Sate can we ever "fully" love God. I think a lot of single women fall into the trap of believing that God is holding back on a husband/man because they don't love Him enough. I know that as a fallen woman I am not capable of ever loving Him in the way that He deserves no matter how hard I try. And From what I've observed most of the woman who have found that "special" someone are nowhere near loving God fully or completely. God did not say to those women "You love me enough, therefore you deserve to be in love with someone else." Heck some people I know who are happily married or in a great relationship don't even believe in God.
The key for me has not been trying to love God more, it's finding a way to be fully satisfied in and with the grace filled love that He has for me. And believing the truth that God's love is the only love that can satisfy me. I have to admit it's darn hard, But it certainly makes me feel relieved that I can't "earn" a husband by loving God more.
From experience, waiting is truly one of the greatest gifts from God as it involves some major refinement.
Do I make sense? I say this all to me as much as I do to you.
We should read some John Piper together - talks all about finding joy in being completely satisfied with all the God is for us. In my opinion it's much more concrete than books like "Captivating"
ha I just wrote an entire blog entry as a comment. . . sorry:)
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