What do you do when everyone around you are “coupling off”, except you?
Hey bloggers!
How y’all doing? Someone said to me recently, that a group of Christian friends went away together for a weekend. And I quote “everybody came back with someone”…everyone came back with a boyfriend/girlfriend…how wise it that? I don’t know, but one thing I do know, I know what it feels like to be single. I have been single for 672 days, and still going strong. It isn’t easy by no means, but I’m still here…and why? Some of you may ask.
Is it because no-one wants me? Well…partly, but I’m ok with that. I don’t want a boyfriend right now, nor am I ready to have a guy in my life like that.
Is it because I like being single? Again…partly. It’s not always easy, but the more time I’ve got in the single lane, the more time I’ve got to get to know God personally. Not only that, as I get to know Him and grow like Him, then I am being crafted into a wife, and He is preparing me for marriage. I am no where near there yet, I’m only 20 years old, but I’m heading in that direction.
As I wait for a man who is Christ-like, with so many Christ-like qualities, I myself, need to become Christ-like, and possess these qualities too. I have to stop and think
What am I waiting for? As I think about certain characteristics that I imagine my husband to have, I am faced with the image of Christ. So then…what is my husband waiting for? A woman who is Christ-like, and possesses Christ-like qualities.
My advise, use your time in the single lane wisely. Grow like Christ and draw closer to Him. In doing so, He is making you the wife/husband, He wants you to be. How exciting. So you know what, don’t rush it. Wait on the Lord and remember, His plan for you, is perfect.
peace
girl in the single lane
How y’all doing? Someone said to me recently, that a group of Christian friends went away together for a weekend. And I quote “everybody came back with someone”…everyone came back with a boyfriend/girlfriend…how wise it that? I don’t know, but one thing I do know, I know what it feels like to be single. I have been single for 672 days, and still going strong. It isn’t easy by no means, but I’m still here…and why? Some of you may ask.
Is it because no-one wants me? Well…partly, but I’m ok with that. I don’t want a boyfriend right now, nor am I ready to have a guy in my life like that.
Is it because I like being single? Again…partly. It’s not always easy, but the more time I’ve got in the single lane, the more time I’ve got to get to know God personally. Not only that, as I get to know Him and grow like Him, then I am being crafted into a wife, and He is preparing me for marriage. I am no where near there yet, I’m only 20 years old, but I’m heading in that direction.
As I wait for a man who is Christ-like, with so many Christ-like qualities, I myself, need to become Christ-like, and possess these qualities too. I have to stop and think
What am I waiting for? As I think about certain characteristics that I imagine my husband to have, I am faced with the image of Christ. So then…what is my husband waiting for? A woman who is Christ-like, and possesses Christ-like qualities.
My advise, use your time in the single lane wisely. Grow like Christ and draw closer to Him. In doing so, He is making you the wife/husband, He wants you to be. How exciting. So you know what, don’t rush it. Wait on the Lord and remember, His plan for you, is perfect.
peace
girl in the single lane
posted by single and waiting @ 11:27 PM
2 Comments:
At 2:02 AM,
P. Gisbourne said…
"use your time in the single lane wisely. Grow like Christ and draw closer to Him."
Those are very wise words.
The Apostle John says
Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus walked.1 John 2:6
As a single man, with great dreams of the fairy tale marriage (yes even men dream of those things) I have been convicted by that verse.
Singleness is a great time of blessing, a time where God calls us to focus on Him, to learn of Him to draw close to Him. To walk as Jesus walked - in a close intimate relationship with our heavenly Father.
I can think of nothing better, than having time to think upon and immerse ourselves in things of eternity.
Please don't let the preassure of the world strip you of the joy that is found in Christ.
At 5:24 PM,
Portrait of Peter said…
Is sadness a form of depression? or is it a cry of the heart?
The fear of being alone is perhaps more evident in today's world than every before.
Is that why I wonder that a group of Christian friends went away together for a weekend, and "everybody came back with someone, boyfriend/girlfriend".
Would such a weekend- have been your delight or your sadness?
A dream that I have often is being a father - the dream remains with me - and yet the reality is I remain single!!
God is who we trust to guide us and whilst my dream may not become a reality - it is what direction that not I - but that of God has shown me too.
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