Blog ko To!!!

All your life, you had specific dreams about what
your family life
would be
like when you finally married. You were so intent
on what you wanted,
you
even made a list of qualities and characteristics
you were looking or
in a
spouse, in a home, in your job, in your children.

But time passed, and that person you were so
intent on didn’t come
along.
All of your friends married, had children, had
beautiful homes. And
still
you were single. You prayed and prayed and prayed
for that person to
come
along, but nothing happened.

You had a good job. You served in your church.
You spent daily time
with the
Lord in prayer and studying the Word. You
dedicated your life to
serving God
in every way possible, but still nothing. So you
decided to take
matters
into your own hands, and you began an active
search for a mate. And
within a
short period, you met someone who almost fit the
bill. Almost. Sure,
there
were a few things missing, a few rusty spots in
that person’s
character.
But, after all, no one is perfect. Of course,
your friends and your
pastor
tried to counsel you that you were making a poor
choice and that you
should
wait for the Lord to send the right person. But
that couldn’t be
right. You
had waited for a long time.

Maybe your goals were too high. Maybe you’d been
asking for the
impossible.
Maybe this was the person God wanted for you so
your character could
grow
through dealing with his or her failings.

So you married. And your life went down hill from
there.

Even though it often seems that God is slow to
answer prayers, no
matter
whether it’s about a mate, or a job, or our
children, or our
finances, or
anything else, we have to remember that God
doesn’t wear a watch. Nor
does
He look at our human calendars. He sees with
eternal eyes. He
operates on an
eternal timetable, according to His plan and His
schedule.

If God seems to be running late, don’t get
impatient and run ahead of
him.
Wait for the Lord’s timing in everything.

To the single folks out there,  this is
for you….

Single means you have the time to grow and be the
person you want to
be.

Single gives you space to grow. Sometimes, it is
harder to grow when
you are
too close to someone. Trees are planted far apart
so they can spread
their
branches and become strong as they mature.

Single means learning to live by yourself.
However, that is no more
difficult than learning to live with somebody
else.

Single means freedom. You are free to spend a
week’s vacation on the
beach,
to take computer courses, to work late on an
interesting project, to
spend
the day in bed with a good book or simply with a
person who has read
one.

Single means learning not to need a man/woman to
make your life
meaningful
but learning to live with a man/woman because you
want to be with
him/her.
Single means that sometimes you will wonder why
you will bite your
lip and
feel wistful and wonder if marriage is better.

Ironically, yet quite happily, single is feeling
good about being in
control
of your life. It is liking and respecting who you
are and why you
are.

And… Single is realizing that being married is
not necessarily
better, it
is
merely different…ü

"…the Lord never promised a peaceful
journey……only a safe
arrival…."

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