Embrace Your Singleness!!!

Will someone please tell me what is so wrong with being single? No...better yet, please tell me why it is a top priority for our young women to get married. Why they feel they are less than a woman if they are not married or with someone? Is it insecurity, is it just that they just don't know...what is it? Why is it the number 1 goal for them?

I know it isn't like that for all of our young girls, but I hear and see it more often then I don't. I see young, talented, smart ladies flirt... and flirt very hard with young men. Almost throwing themselves at them. I hear young talented, smart ladies say, I want to find a husband? That is not the order of how God intended things to work.

I was just in a local High School, and there were several young ladies that asked me if I were married. And that is a very legitimate question, but why is it the absolute first question. And then why does it so instinctively follow with...do you have any kids? Why is that?

In searching for some sort of insight into the answer, I came across this awesome poem:

What makes you think that just because I am an attractive woman of Godly intelligence that I'm incomplete without a mate? Who told you that without a man something's missing from my life? And if so, what would that be?

Love? I love myself and more importantly I love the Lord. He told me that when I delight in Him, He will give me the desires of my heart.

Security? I have everything I need according to His riches in glory.

Intimacy? Now, how's a man going to get to know me when he doesn't even know who he is in the Lord.

See my Father told me I'm above a ruby's worth and a gem does not seek, it is sought. I'm single and that's all right with me. See, it's not that I oppose relationships it's that I detest co-dependency. As a woman I know it is not my role to chase after any man. Esther 2:14 reads that I am to wait on my king and when he's delighted in me he will call me by my name.

My Lord does not intend for me to be needy or desperate. I am to be Cherished, Relished, Valued, and Honored. It's not my job to convince him or convict him of that. My mate will already know it and consistently show it and he will stay on his knees daily - not just to adore me but to praise the Lord for the virtuous woman he has found.

So, when you see me by myself - I'm not alone. I know what I have coming to me. I'm single and saved, and right now that's all I need to be!- Author Unknown

Wow!! Even though the author says unknown...it is obvious it is written by a women or from a woman's perspective...but it is talking to men as well. Men...know yourself in the Lord before you marry. And when it is time to call your wife by her name...Cherish, Relish, Value, and Honor the blessing God has given you in your virtuous woman.

It says in Gen 24:7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

God is good and he knows the desires of your heart...Embrace Your Singleness and put God first...he will direct your path to your King or your Virtuous Queen!!