Put it down on (digital) paper...
I was at camp all last week and it was such an amazing experience getting to be apart of facilitating life change in young people! One of the topics that arose during the week was putting down on paper a list of things you want in a significant other. While most of our young people aren't of age or have had enough life experience to really know what they should actually write down, I still believe this was an important part of what was conveyed during camp. Guess what else? I was totally convicted because until this point I've never done it!
That's not to say that I haven't thought about it carefully during the 23 years of my life. In all honesty it took me longer to find where I'd stored Microsoft word on my hard drive than it did to actually write down all the important points of the list. I think it's good though that I've finally put it down so that the next time I get twitter pated I can pull out the list and make a practical assessment of the object of my light headed joy. It's been several months now since that's happened fortunately.
I really think it has a lot to do with a contentment to be with God, rather than a lack of potential. I know several young woman that I'd like the opportunity to get to know better. But the fact is that I'm at peace over the whole subject, I'm not in any rush to mess with the place God has brought me to. I'm happy to be His! I'm not sharing the list because I think it falls into the category of TMI for most people that would stumble across this blog. If you are in fact planning on encouraging me to get to know someone, by all means ask me for the list and I'll let you have it.
If you're reading this and you haven't a clue what it means to be content with being single, let me just encourage you that for a long time I was right there. Almost 10 years to be honest. I'm finally allowing God to be number one in my life. I finally got my priorities on order, I've allowed myself to relinquish control, I trust Him with my whole life, including whether or not I get married. Trust Him!
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I too had gotten to the place that I was totally content with God being my numero uno and in steps my husband. God knew that until He was all that I needed anything else would've been a complete distraction.
I wanted a man that loved Jesus with all that he could. That was my list because I felt that God had a blessing reserved just for me.
What God has for you is for you. It's also in His timing. It takes patience, but in the mean-time prepare yourself to be the blessing that a wife needs.
Awesome post. Thanks!