Learning About Love

*This blog entry may get a little personal, on my part and yours. Just know that these words come from the heart ♥

It seems to me that many many people my age are having, or have had, relationship problems. I believe this is a direct result of one thing: lack of intimacy with our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Now I am definately NOT saying that if you have relationship problems you are not a Christian, because that is so not true. This blog is pretty much directly written to those Christian singles who are having relationship problems because I have been there (ok, well, I'm still there :))

There are a few things we could all learn:

1. No one will ever satisfy us or fill our emptiness except for Jesus Christ

2. We serve a jealous God and he will not allow us to be totally and completely satisfied with someone else until we are satisfied with him.

3. When we find ourselves in the perfect will of God, we will never want to go back to who we were before because it will be so awesome

4. We must learn to wait on the Lord, and while we are waiting we must learn to worship him, there is nothing to fear, God will stay true to his promises

5. Life is full of pain and heart break and rejection but God said he would never leave us and forsake us. He suffered for us and we will suffer for him.

So how do I know anything about any of this??? Well, for the most part I truly don't have a clue. But I know where I have been and where God has brought me and I have learned a lot from my experience and the men and women of God who have spoken into my life. I was in a relationship on and off for 2 years. It ended badly. It was kind of ugly. I questioned God and I questioned every choice I had made about my life. I was afraid that God was mad at me for the choices I had made, but most of all, I feared that those two years had just been a waste and that nothing good would come from it. But I learned that God uses everything in our life to build our ministry, to build our testimony. I have been able to talk to so many girls (and a few guys) about making God the central focus of their life. And that is so important. I have learned that if I could touch one persons life with my testimony in a way that effects their eternal life it is worth it.

I am completely confident in all 4 of the items I just listed, even though some of them are yet to be acheived in my life. This is because after the break up I went through, I buried myself in the word of God and his word is full of promises to his children (thats us!!!!)

So here I will share them with you. Be encouraged. God loves us and longs for intimacy with us just like we long for intimacy with another human being. He died on the cross to forgive our sins and when we learn to live completely and utterly in love with him, he will send us some company for our journey on earth :)

"I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears." ~Psalms 34:4

"The Lord is near to them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as are of a crushed spirit, many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him from them all." ~Psalm 34:18-19

" Trust ye in the Lord forever: For in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength." Isaiah 26:4

"For thy maker is thy husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer, the holy one of Israel; the God of the whole earth, shall he be called." ~Isaiah 54:5

"The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory that will be revealed in us." ~Romans 8:18

"'If God be for us, who can be against us?" ~Romans 9:31

"I will never leave thee nor forsake thee" ~Hebrews 13:5

There are so many wonderful promises in the word of God. Explore them, cling to them, and believe them. They are our hope, they encourage our faith, and they are so true.