So this is a very small drop of water into a very large Ocean, coz i've got so much to learn, but there's a few things that God has been showing me over the year. If you read this and have advice to share, please do!!
'In the autumn on the ground, between the traffic and the traffic and the ordinary sounds
I am thinking signs and seasons while a north wind blows through
i watch as lovers pass me by
Walking stories - whos and hows and whys
Musing lazily on love
Pondering you
I'll give it time, give it space and be still for a spell
When it's time to walk that way we wana walk it well'
A few things have come to my attention as a daughter of Christ, about waiting for love. It is so incredibly hard to wait for it. But i do believe our Papa tells us to wait for the right time for a good reason. I think like Brooke Frasers song 'love is waiting' and how it says 'i'll give it time, give it space, be still for a spell, when it's time to walk that way , we wanna walk it well' Is an amazingly good point. If we aren't able to be secure in Jesus alone, and in that state, we let our heart get attached to someone else, we're putting an expectation on them that is far more than they as a human can fulfill. The poor person, just won't be able to cut it for us, coz we're trying to make them our everything, but they can't possibly be! So if we feel we're in the position where we are looking for someone to spend our life with, and needing that more than we need Jesus, we need to wait. When we meet a potential partner, we want to walk it well.
'Oh, let me warn you, sisters in Jerusalem,
by the gazelles, yes, by all the wild deer:
Don't excite love, don't stir it up,
until the time is ripe—and you're ready' Song of Solomon 2:7
I often use this verse as a bit of a check up on where i'm at, i think it's a good indicator of where you're at with God, so before you start pursuing someone, have a think, read this verse, and see how you're doing. Pray. And ask God to give you the strength to say No to it, if he doesn't want it, but also that he'd be your ultimate source of joy and hope, and he'd show you that the joy you can experience from him is far better!
1 Corinthians 13
'Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.'
