This is one of those weeks where I know the attacks are coming. I am confident that the dastardly and more evil "Cupid" known as Satan is going to try and shoot those fiery arrows at my vulnerable heart, in the hopes of poking holes in my relationship with the Lover of my Soul. He will be out for blood, shamelessly and destructively trying to shift my focus onto my supposed "lack" of true love, attempting to make me forget the innocent blood that my Savior shed so we could be together. That said, I certainly cannot attempt to live without that protective covering of Ephesians 6: 14-17 nor the focus and dependence on my Strength through prayer. With the life-giving and strong grace of my God, I hope to blog every day this week, proclaiming the smallest of ways that my Jesus is better, that regardless of status He. Is. Enough. Perhaps in my desire to post for my own relationship with Him, the Redeemer will use it to keep you close to Him too. With time, my list of "Things I Want in a Husband" has gotten significantly shorter, not due to compromise, but mostly out of the reality of what living life as a God-following human ACTUALLY is. HE has adjusted so many of my expectations through the gift of observing marriages, conversations about relationships in general, and a deeper understanding of the Perfection of God and the Composition of Dust that is Mankind. I am SO thankful that He sees fit that I should get to have this beautiful present of singleness and have the opportunity to enjoy all of its sweet implications. If He chooses to swap out gifts one day, replacing singleness with marriage, I will rejoice that He imparted the truth of His Eternal Nature to me as an individual that can carry through my marriage. For He: 1. EMPATHIZES. He gets me. I cannot tell you the number of times one of my jokes has been met with a blank stare or worse still, the look of slight disgust that says, "Girl, you are weird." The Author of Joy gets my jokes every time. He knows they are coming, so maybe He even chuckles before I say them. Even those ill-formed thoughts that come out like a recently-shaken Boggle board make sense to Him. (Psalm 139:4) He made me. Who better than a Maker to have intimate knowledge of His creation? I mean, the Originator of an Idea is always going to know it best. (Psalm 139: 13-14, 1 John 3:20) He relates. Having lived as an actual human in this world, He knows every emotion and temptation AND He also happens to have the "inside scoop" as to how to combat it all because He was perfectly victorious. His ability to relate goes further in that He comforts me in my affliction. (Hebrews 4:15, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4) If what I am looking for is someone who understands me, then Christ fits the bill, even exceeds it because, quite frankly, my knowledge of His Nature is finite. There is no lack here since the Perpetual Pursuer of my heart is relentless in making sure I know He gets me. Any perceived deficiency is a lie the world is telling me, that my flesh is putting on the stove to boil, and that the enemy is working to manipulate. I pray that today, my True Husband, would remind me, as only He can, that He empathizes, knows and understands me completely, flawlessly, and beautifully.
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