
To start off our amazing series I'm going to begin at...singleness...the very best place to start. Its where we all start. Probably a place that most of us are still at. Probably the hardest part of female teens is keeping a healthy focus. It's what we were all intended for. Living a life of praise, reflecting our Lord...
I Corinthians 7:34 says "An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit."
Is that not the coolest verse EVER?! I'm lovin' it! Our good friend Bug just showed me that...until then I had never heard it. ha ha! Don't yah love that! :) So, I'm just gonna focus on one aspect of our "single" lives right now. What it should look like. Bug and Becca will hopefully go into more detail there. :)
Well, to begin with...everyone, guy or girl is built with a hole inside them. Yeh, a void. A huge emptiness, a longing. We all don't realize it, we don't understand what this feeling of unworth is, this feeling of unbelonging. Some of us pretend we don't have it, sometimes we disguise it. It's that longing to be loved, cherished, cared about, and deeply and sincerely treasured. We try to fill this hole by anything we can...acceptance, possessions, friends, satisfaction....and love. However, there is only one COMPLETE answer...something that totally fills that hole. Its the only existing puzzle piece that fits. We search everywhere else for the puzzle piece, many of us know what it is. I know you know it! Yup, Jesus Christ...the lover of my soul...your soul! We search for this puzzle piece...it's something we are ALL built to accent perfectly, or better yet. He accents US perfectly. However, we fail to see that. As girls, we look to boyfriends, even Dads to fill this gap. Since we were little we all dreamed of being princesses...growing up someday and marrying the perfect man of our dreams. This permeates our later childhood and teen years as we look to others for this unconditional love. Many don't realize they can ONLY find it in one place, and therefore give up everything searching in places where it will never exist. Heartbreak after Heartbreak they move on...broken. bruised. smashed. torn. crushed. God is the only one who can love us that way, and when we believe that, EVERYTHING changes. He fills that void perfectly. He loves us like no one can....he understands our problems not even the greatest psychiatrist or wisest man on the world could understand, nevermind solve. He heals the wounds others inflict on us. He heals the wounds we inflict on ourselves. TV, Music, Movies, Family, Friends, Magazines ALL tell us we need a boyfriend. If we don't know someone likes us, we feel uncomplete. Unloved, and not worth anything. I know so many times I don't even think of Christ as the sole lover of my heart, he holds the keys, he understands, he loves passionately. He's like no other. Yet, we search for anything else...He seems so distant...so far away, so unattainable. He's near, and He's waiting. Singleness...is complete in Christ. So, our task on hand is to be concerened about the Lord, and becoming more like him. As we wait for our future husband our focus should be completely centered on Him. "Let our eyes be fixed on Him, the author and perfecter of our faith!" He is our focus. As a young woman of God I am devoted to him at this point of my life. That's the only thing. Let's let that be our goals sisters!
I Corinthians 7:34 says "An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit."
Is that not the coolest verse EVER?! I'm lovin' it! Our good friend Bug just showed me that...until then I had never heard it. ha ha! Don't yah love that! :) So, I'm just gonna focus on one aspect of our "single" lives right now. What it should look like. Bug and Becca will hopefully go into more detail there. :)
Well, to begin with...everyone, guy or girl is built with a hole inside them. Yeh, a void. A huge emptiness, a longing. We all don't realize it, we don't understand what this feeling of unworth is, this feeling of unbelonging. Some of us pretend we don't have it, sometimes we disguise it. It's that longing to be loved, cherished, cared about, and deeply and sincerely treasured. We try to fill this hole by anything we can...acceptance, possessions, friends, satisfaction....and love. However, there is only one COMPLETE answer...something that totally fills that hole. Its the only existing puzzle piece that fits. We search everywhere else for the puzzle piece, many of us know what it is. I know you know it! Yup, Jesus Christ...the lover of my soul...your soul! We search for this puzzle piece...it's something we are ALL built to accent perfectly, or better yet. He accents US perfectly. However, we fail to see that. As girls, we look to boyfriends, even Dads to fill this gap. Since we were little we all dreamed of being princesses...growing up someday and marrying the perfect man of our dreams. This permeates our later childhood and teen years as we look to others for this unconditional love. Many don't realize they can ONLY find it in one place, and therefore give up everything searching in places where it will never exist. Heartbreak after Heartbreak they move on...broken. bruised. smashed. torn. crushed. God is the only one who can love us that way, and when we believe that, EVERYTHING changes. He fills that void perfectly. He loves us like no one can....he understands our problems not even the greatest psychiatrist or wisest man on the world could understand, nevermind solve. He heals the wounds others inflict on us. He heals the wounds we inflict on ourselves. TV, Music, Movies, Family, Friends, Magazines ALL tell us we need a boyfriend. If we don't know someone likes us, we feel uncomplete. Unloved, and not worth anything. I know so many times I don't even think of Christ as the sole lover of my heart, he holds the keys, he understands, he loves passionately. He's like no other. Yet, we search for anything else...He seems so distant...so far away, so unattainable. He's near, and He's waiting. Singleness...is complete in Christ. So, our task on hand is to be concerened about the Lord, and becoming more like him. As we wait for our future husband our focus should be completely centered on Him. "Let our eyes be fixed on Him, the author and perfecter of our faith!" He is our focus. As a young woman of God I am devoted to him at this point of my life. That's the only thing. Let's let that be our goals sisters!
In Christ,
Byrde