girls, ya'll are just insanely encouraging. i need this blog. praise God, ya'll thought of it. yes, i agree i loved those max lucado quotes and again, i'm pretty skeptical of him as well. and yes, i believe it is an easy and very scary mentality to just waste our singleness away waiting untill we meet mr. husband and then begin our life. it's like i wouldn't ever admit to that, and then when i think about it, i feel like often i do have that mentality. wow, that was a beautiful passage on esther.
hmm, that's a very dramatic title. it almost sounds alienish but that's not what i mean at all. haha. i don't know about ya'll, but sometimes i think i am the only one walking around with these struggles and feeling lonely... and gasp, wanting to feel sorry for myself. praise God, though, that in those moments He has taught me enough truth to know that i have no reason and no room to feel sorry for anything about my life. i was made aware of this verse and it's true meaning this summer and it has really affected me... actually in ways other than waiting on a husband and the struggle that goes along with that, but now i think it really applies following what i just typed. 1 Corinthians 15:19 says, "If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied." paul is saying, if this salvation, this belief system that we have isn't true and only a part of life here on earth and not eternal (which we know is not true) then our lives are to be pitied. people would feel so sorry for the lives that we lead. think of paul in prison traveling singly proclaiming the truth of the Gospel as he is mocked and beaten. well, i don't know about you, but i don't think there's much about my life to be pitied. and i'm not saying as a Christian we ought to suffer for the sake of suffering. but God calls us to a life that is lower than those who follow this world. our lives are going to look so different if we truly follow Him. and, that may include singleness... that includes not dating or having sex untill we're 30 years old (well i hope it's not that long, but you never know). here is john piper's take on this life with Christ and that verse...
"In other words, here is a life of radical, risk-taking, perilous, sacrificial love. Where did it come from? Where would yours come from? Well, look again at our text, verse 19: "If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied." Now we see what "this life" means to Paul - risk, peril, danger, suffering - all in the service of love. And we stand in awe - and there rises up a longing in our hearts to be like that. It is written by God, I believe, on your heart that this is beautiful. This is right. This is true. This, in the end, would be the best life."
aggghhh! that is just one of those quotes that just makes me want to shout and say, yes!! that's it. that's what i want my life to be about! and, then life kicks in. but it's so true! suffering brings beauty! it brings hope! it brings deep, deep love in Him!!
ok, and here's the original reason i started this post. i'm not even really sure where that first part came from. this song by caedmon's call encourages me so, so much. gosh, i just love it. and i know you have all heard it. but it's the song that just comforts me in knowing, these fears are understandable and they are not only my fears but they are fears of maybe, derek webb himself! so... i love it. and it includes a little verse from some of my favorite scripture.... matthew 6! but, that's why i say we are not alone. it is a common struggle. i am going to bold my favorite lines in case you do not want to read the entire thing... so without further ado, here's table for two. (ha, that rhymed :)).
table for two
Danny and I spent another late night over pancakes,
Talkin' 'bout soccer
And how every man's just the same
We made speculation
On the who's and the when's of our futures
And how everyone's lonely
But still we just couldn't complain
And how we just hate being alone
Could I have missed my only chance
And now I'm just wasting my time
By looking around
But you know I know better
I'm not gonna worry 'bout nothing
Cause if the birds and the flowers survive
Then I'll make it okay
I'm given a chance and a rock
see which one breaks a window
See which one keeps me up all night and into the day
Because I'm so scared of being alone
That I forget what house I live in
But it's not my job to wait by the phone
For her to call
Well this day's been crazy
But everything's happened on schedule
from the rain and the cold
To the drink that I spilled on my shirt
'Cause You knew how You'd save me
before I fell dead in the garden
And You knew this day
long before You made me out of dirt
And You know the plans that You have for me
And You can't plan the end and not plan the means
And so I suppose I just need some peace
Just to get me to sleep.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
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