"Look at you. You are such a failure. You've been single for almost a year now. No one wants to date you and no one ever will, especially if you keep your standards so high. What are you expecting, Mr. (or Mrs.) Perfect? Get real. You're going to have to settle. Everyone else does. And you better settle fast because you are the only one who isn't dating right now. Such a failure..."
Lies. Lies. Lies.
Yet we are so quick to believe every word. We live in a culture that says you are a reject if you aren't in a relationship. Every movie, song, commercial is about "love" and being with the opposite sex. But is this really what life is all about?
Obviously not. But it's easy to get sucked into isn't it?
We treat dating like a game of Duck, Duck, Goose. Everyone sits in a circle and if your desperate enough, and loud enough, or popular enough, then you just might get tagged and chased. The same people get tagged and chased and tagged and chased and you just sit on the side lines wishing someone would tag you. Finally, someone touches your head. You don't think twice about whether or not your going to marry the person or whether their standards match up with yours, they tagged you! That's what you've been waiting for and it finally happened to you! So you run full speed ahead with very little thought and you're in the game.
Being single is not the "mush pot" that we get stuck in every once and a while and we just have to wait it out until we can get back into the real game of boy chases girl. This is a lie from Hell.
But why in the world would Satan lie about that? Because he knows how valuable our single years are. He knows that God has a special plan and special tasks for us to do in our single years that we can't accomplish at any other time in our life. Once those years are gone, they're gone. And Satan wants with all his heart to distract us and brainwash us into thinking those years are a curse. Because in reality? The thought of us actually believing that our single years are a gift, and following God's plan for us in our single lives scares the Devil to death.
This is a time in our lives that we can't afford to lose. God has a list of things we need to do for Him at this point in our lives that we just can't do when we are married. It's a big deal how we choose to spend this time. This is a God given opportunity.
You have the whole rest of your life to be with the person of your dreams. Why rush it now and impose on the few precious single years God's given you?
We've all heard the expression, "This is your life, you only get one, spend it wisely." Or something to that extent. Well I want to change it up a bit.
This is your single life. You only get one. Spend it wisely.
"What can I say? And what can I do? But offer this heart, oh God. Completely to You."
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