I've been listening to Just a kiss, by Lady Antebellum, ad nauseum today. I would normally consider myself a very content person. I am successful and blessed far beyond what I deserve. I have had the opportunities to see so many different things, meet so many different people, experience so many different perspectives, sometimes the weight of God's blessings in my life just about bowls me over.
But sometimes, like today, it is the loneliness, not the blessings, that threatens to suffocate me. All of these wonderful opportunities I've had, all of these new things I've done - they've always been experienced alone. Of course, the Lord has not left me hanging out to dry. He has always sent me people to help me, befriend me, and teach me wherever I have gone. But the fact remains that I have always gone to those places alone.
I was made for marriage. It's woven just about as deeply into my being as it could be. And sometimes the fact that I do all of these wonderful things, but I do them by myself....sometimes that really gets to me.
But Jesus is the boyfriend who will always be around. He is, when it gets down to it, really all we need, and He will give us everything we need to not only live, but to thrive. As Thoreau put it, "to live deliberately. To live deep and suck the marrow out of life, to put to rout all that is not life and not, at the end of my life, discover that I have not lived."
I know that sometimes life can get hard. It can get lonely. It can feel like it's you against the world. But there's always at least one other person in your court. And He just happened to have made the world. So really, the world is nothing. Lean on Him; let Him romance you; let Him be your succor and the one you run to.
But sometimes, like today, it is the loneliness, not the blessings, that threatens to suffocate me. All of these wonderful opportunities I've had, all of these new things I've done - they've always been experienced alone. Of course, the Lord has not left me hanging out to dry. He has always sent me people to help me, befriend me, and teach me wherever I have gone. But the fact remains that I have always gone to those places alone.
I was made for marriage. It's woven just about as deeply into my being as it could be. And sometimes the fact that I do all of these wonderful things, but I do them by myself....sometimes that really gets to me.
But Jesus is the boyfriend who will always be around. He is, when it gets down to it, really all we need, and He will give us everything we need to not only live, but to thrive. As Thoreau put it, "to live deliberately. To live deep and suck the marrow out of life, to put to rout all that is not life and not, at the end of my life, discover that I have not lived."
I know that sometimes life can get hard. It can get lonely. It can feel like it's you against the world. But there's always at least one other person in your court. And He just happened to have made the world. So really, the world is nothing. Lean on Him; let Him romance you; let Him be your succor and the one you run to.
2 Peter 1:3
3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 
Praying for you...and for him...and eager to discover when God's timing "hits"!
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My dear Lauren, this is a truth you will lean on even after God brings you that special someone. He alone can satisfy. I love you and am continually encouraged by you.
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