Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Being Single is a Blessing
In RUF Brad has been talking about sex, love, and relationships. This semester has been absolutely amazing. Last night he talked about how our ultimate goal in life is to glorify God. Yes, we all may "know" this already, but do we really apply it to everything? I know that I don't.For me it is easy to say that I want to get married so that I can glorify the Lord to the best of my ability. Ha, that's not the point of marriage. We are more than capable of glorifying the Lord while single. In fact, I tend to think that I must not be doing things right and I should be more content if I am still single because obviously the Lord isn't blessing me with a boyfriend and future spouse. The Lord used Brad in an awesome way to turn my whole perspective of being single around. First of all, marriage is not something that can be earned. It's a gift that we cannot earn. I find myself trying to be content in hopes that if I am content with being single, then the Lord will bless me with some amazing husband. If I can't earn it, then why am I so dumb to keep trying to earn it?? I ought to focus on the Lord and be content in the fact that He loves me. Secondly, being single is a blessing. I would have thought that you were crazy if you had told me that just yesterday morning, but now I see that it really is a blessing. I shouldn't be looking at who can I find that will love me, but instead, who can I be loving? after all, that is the whole story of the Gospel. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son to die for our sins. For God so loved the world. Take a minute to take that in. He has loved us first. The whole Bible is a love story. This love story talks about how He has loved others. He didn't sacrifice His one and only Son so that we would look at Him and praise Him. We praise Him because He sacrificed His one and only Son. I need to be looking at me being single as an enormous blessing! Because I am single I have more time to go forth and love others that need to see Christ's love for them. To me that is pretty exciting; I hope that it is exciting to you too.
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How can you become content with love? It is very clear form other posts that you are loved. Why is it that you cannot love the people that are loving you? You stated that the lord has not blessed you with a boyfriend or a future husband. Ok your past posts state that you are surrounded by people loving you. Also your relationship that lasted 3 and a half years you found no love. If the people around you love so much why can you not love back? How are the people around you not loving you for your love? Now I don't know you but I think you need to be looking at the people around you. They must have an impact on you and clearly love you because you state it so much. It sounds like the lord wants you to love but you are not concidering the love being given to you. I think you need to look deep in your heart and try to figure out why these people in your life are loving you because you obviously love them. I once had the same feelings as you. One day I talked with a very close friend and I realized that no one was perfect by any means but I found that it was a lot easier to love those who really loved me for me. If that person can love me that much then it was clearly a sign that the lord needed us together. That is how I learned to love. I married the man that loved me. He told me later on that it was the lord telling him that we were to be together. Luckily he held in and I also realized it was the lord telling me that the little love I found in him was real. I fell that you need to really look at those who are loving you and see if it is the lord telling you it is ok to love them back. I hope this will put a new perspective on your experience to love and maybe the lord is blessing you with that guy and you just don't know it.
Maybe we should start treating each other like we should treat God. I think God sent Christ to be the perfect model for our relationships - not only between Him and us, but between each other as well. I'm not saying treat everybody like they're gods themselves, but treat each other like we would God: as holy. I think we would find perfect relationships if we treated everybody as holy. I think Mother Teresa caught on to this because she said she treated everybody as if they were Jesus; she treated everybody as if they were the most important person in the world. I think it would be a vicious and contagious circle if we treated each other in love in this manner. So whether you're a boyfriend/girlfriend treating each other as holy or friends likewise, I think then you find the relationship as God intended. How else could such a Holy King approach unworthy sinners like us?
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