All the Single Ladies

SINGLE LADIES, you have been on my heart very heavily the past few days and I know you (we) have many fears and insecurities. I feel there are a few specific things I need to speak to.

I know God is my father, lover, and friend, and that he is to be my first love, but why do I feel like there is another place in my heart where another love is being kept and nurtured for someone else?

So many young women are haunted by this feeling, some feel guilty that they feel lonely when they know God is to be their everything. Let me tell you, God designed us to love and to WANT to be loved. We are made to be like him, in his image. God is a being who loves romance! He desires our love and attention and affection. He designed all those chemicals and wires in our complicated brains that make us feel like we're floating when someone pursues us! But in the process of desiring someone to love; a boyfriend or husband, we must recognize that the Lord deserves to be loved more so than anyone else. And in order to have the blessings that come with loving someone, God must be given first place and first priority.

This last season I was in was hard, extremely difficult because I was in that same place where my desire was to love someone and have someone love me. My desire was and still is to serve someone and love them the way Christ loves his bride, the church. But that desire took center stage and tore the spotlight away from God. It was a huge revelations when I realized I CANNOT LOVE UNLESS I LOVE CHRIST FIRST. Christ is love and if we as women want to have a meaningful relationship with a man of God, then we need to be plugged into God's source of "love energy" so that WE can be renewed and WE can understand the ways in which we need to love.

Ladies, by nature we are designed to nurture, commit, and sacrifice. That's why when we find a significant other, we in our minds commit until the end. This is a blessing and a curse!! :) I want to tell you sisters that we need to control our desires to nurture, commit, and sacrifice outside of marriage. It's dangerous to act on these things. We need to be satisfied as single women of God, in God's arms. It's not wrong to want to be loved and pursued, but I hope and pray you understand that God is the ultimate lover. He knows our needs, can meet them, he understands our passions and is passionate WITH us. He loves like a wild man and isn't ashamed to express it! Could we ask for anything better?? Just know, that as women, we cannot effectively and truly love until we experience God's love and continue to maintain and nurture our own love for Christ.

When we are satisfied with God's love, then we can begin to understand what it means to love someone else.

Our day will come!!
Morgan