I had one of the most taxing semesters of my life. One of the biggest roller coasters I've ever ridden. So when I packed all my stuff-- my enormous amounts of stuff I think for some reason is crucial to exist-- and headed home for the summer, I realized that not only had I survived the roller coaster but I was in a million pieces. In a million pieces, in DIRE need of the Lord to put me back together. Cause y'all, just like Humpty Dumpty, I wasn't dumb enough to believe mere mortals themselves could put me back together.
SO! I decided to take the Proverbs 31 Challenge!! (I have no earthly idea if this is a real thing, but heck it is what I'm calling it!) For 31 days, I am studying Proverbs 31. If you aren't familiar with the passage, it is basically a outline of the ideal woman, the ideal woman of God. Well let me tell you something, I have been single as long as I have been alive. I'd say I'm going through a dry spell, but then that would just mean I was born in the desert! And I'm pretty sure, I am going to be a one-hit wonder when it comes to dating, falling in love, and gettin' hitched. Which should seem like pretty good odds. 7 Billion people in the world. About half of that men. About one-third of that eligible suitors. That gives me around 1 Billion people. ONE BILLION MEN. But, oh-no-sir-ee! The Lord has a much sicker sense of humor than that! You don't get to choose out of the one billion because he's already picked your match out for you. So if you follow him and trust your future in his hands, he's only going to bring the two of y'all together in HIS....PERFECT....timing. And thats annoying my friends, oh-so annoying.
I heard it said once that if you haven't found your soulmate yet, it is because there is a barrier is y'alls lives. Maybe it's a barrier of the heart. As in, God is still trying to teach one or both of you something that will make your marriage a bajillion times easier if you learn such lessons before. OR... maybe it is an actual physical barrier. He lives in California. You live in South Carolina. And there is comfort in that. Comfort in that your heart that desires to be loved and be a spouse to someone hasn't been forgotten. It's just that in the mean time God has plans.
So this is how I came up with this challenge. I needed to work with the Lord to put me back together after this semester. And he was very faithful in that prayer while I was in Costa Rica. But now that I was back in my regular life, it was time to tackle the stuff I had pushed so far down it had cobwebs on it. Therefore, what better way to face my issues than learning what it means to be a woman of God. Not only would it show me the areas of my life I am not handling appropriately, but it will help me prepare to be the wife that I will be called to be one day. I want to be ready. Ready for when the Lord finally says, "Hey...look up! That's him!"
SOOOOOO.... Tonight I read verse 12. It goes like this-- "She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life." How many of us can stand up right now and say.... YES! I will only bring him good. Yeah if you stood up, SIT BACK DOWN! None of us. We hold resentment. We gossip. We complain. We intentionally say words we know are going to cut. We call names. We seek revenge. NONE OF THIS IS OK!!!!! I am guilty too. But ladies, what would it look like if for a second we loved like Jesus loves. We didn't seek revenge. We didn't hold grudges. We didn't go gossiping about what he or others did to piss us off. How different would this world be if we stood up (ok... NOW you can stand up) and loved like this? As perfect as we like to think we are. As much as I like to think the only reason I haven't met Prince Charming yet is because HE has work to do with the Father before he's ready to meet ME...... I am so wrong.
Therefore here is a challenge. For one week. Just one. (Look, y'all, we can hold on to a diet at least that long!) Vow to, with the help of God, love like this. And every time you want to gossip, hold a grudge, call someone or him a bad name write it down. Then at the end of the night pray through them. It's time we take responsibility too. I am choosing to prepare for the future I want through a God who has proven over and over He.....Is......So.....GOOD!
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