God Has a Boaz Waiting For YOU, So DON'T Settle For BOZO!!

My time-line growing up. It's funny because I thought I was going to be married and have at least 3 kids by now. I was wrong. God had something better in store for me.

Age 5: Played Wedding
            * This is where you would dress up and have your own wedding. I married my rabbit, neighborhood cat, and some other random things (I was 5 and wanted to marry everything that I loved)

Age10: Was going to marry Will Chesher
            *My first crush

Age 17: Had my Bridesmaids picked out
            *Of course there was like 10 of them because I had to have every single one of my best friends in it!

Age 18: Had my Wedding Planned (all I needed was the groom)
            *My friend Stefe and I would always talk about our weddings and would plan them whenever we saw something cute or what we wanted in our wedding

Age 19: Found the Groom (so I thought)
            *I have nothing for this

Age 21: Heartbroken/Found Jesus J
            *Not going into too much detail but I think the title explains it

Age 23: Found a Great Christian Guy (Nope just another phony)
            *LIAR

Age 24: Re-planned my whole wedding (just missing the groom)

            *Naturally everything changed but a few things

Age 25+: Heartbroken/Dated a few more guys/Content with being Single!!
            *Dated some real losers. Didn’t want to lower my standards!! I’m a    princess, just waiting on my Prince J

Why are you writing a blog about being single?? Well, it’s something that I deal with. Not as much as I used to when I was younger. It’s weird because now that I’m older it doesn’t bother me as much. Sure, there are days that I struggle with it but there are days when I thank God for taking me down this road.  Most all my friends are: dating, engaged, married, married with babies. Sometimes I get jealous of them because they have a life that I want, BUT, I know that God has something different in store for me. Not saying that I am not going to get married one of these days and have lots of little babies, just not right now.  This is what helps me get through the days when I am having bad or negative thoughts.  I know that I am beautifully and wonderfully made, because that’s how God created me to be. We must continually remind ourselves that our security and confidence comes from who we are in Christ, not in what we do. The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1  A very wise and big influence in my life always tells me “Purpose in your heart not to settle for second best, but wait for God’s best no matter how long it takes.”  The more I think about it I would rather be single and happy than married to the wrong one and be miserable! If it’s our desire to be married, and we know God wants to give us the desire of our hearts, then we know that we are single only for a season. So we might as well enjoy this season! To be able to enjoy this season, we have to get into faith instead of being anxious. I believe, that God is ordering our steps and preparing the right mate for me.

Discouragement

I get very discouraged as I said in the above paragraph. We all have had opportunities to get discouraged. Even Jesus himself was tempted to be discouraged. In Matthew 16 Jesus tell his disciples how he was going to go to the cross and suffer the most horrible death any human being ever suffered. Now that could be very discouraging. Then right at that moment Peter stuck his foot in his mouth…Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”   Matthew 16:22

In the Greek translation of this verse, Peter is literally saying to Jesus, “Pity yourself.” In other words, Peter was trying to get Jesus to feel sorry for Himself. Actually, it wasn’t Peter; it was the devil himself. He is the source behind all discouragement.

            We must realize the source of our discouragement and do what Jesus did about it. And that is, He spoke to it! He spoke to discouragement. In verse 23 He said,”… Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” Whenever self-pity tries to come our way, be like Jesus and command it to leave your life.

                Your words are very powerful. After you speak to discouragement, you can start saying, “I believe I’m full of joy,” because Proverbs 15:23 says, “A person finds joy in giving an apt reply— and how good is a timely word!”  Even your level of joy is determined by the words that you speak.

*If you’re having any doubts about being single, DON’T because God has a greater plan for you. Just trust in him and he will lead the way. This is something that I struggle with but with God’s help I know that it’s going to be worth the wait!!  

I just wanted to leave you with a picture that I took when I was in Gatlinburg, TN last year