Believe and be Satisfied

[tinkerbell]

This is something that I stumbled across a few years ago, and it has been a huge blessing to me. I hope you really get a blessing from it as well!! The author is unknown - sorry.

"Everyone longs to give himself to someone, to have a deep soul relationship with another, to be loved exclusively and thoroughly. But to the Christian, God says, “No, not until you are satisfied and fulfilled with living, loved by me alone. Not until you give yourself totally and unreservedly to me and experience an intensely personal and unique relationship with me alone. I love you, my child and until you discover that only in me is your satisfaction to be found, you will not be capable of the perfect human relationship that I have planned for you. You will never be truly united with me exclusively of any greater desires or longings. I want you to stop planning, stop your wishful thinking and allow me to give you the most thrilling plan existing, one that you cannot imagine. I want you to have the best. Please allow me to bring it to you. You keep that satisfaction knowing that I AM, learning and listening to the thing I tell you; and you must be willing to wait. And then, when you’re ready I’ll surprise you with a love far more wonderful than you could ever dream. You see, until you are ready and until the one I have for you is ready (I am working right at this moment to have both of you ready at the same time,) and until you are both satisfied exclusively with me and the life I’ve prepared for you, you won’t be able to experience the godly love that illustrates your relationship with me. This is PERFECT love. And my dear one, I want you to have to most wonderful love. I want you to see, in the flesh, a picture of your relationship with me and enjoy the everlasting union of beauty and perfection and love that I offer you myself. I love you utterly. I am God Almighty. Just believe and be satisfied."

 

[renaistre]

Thanks for sharing this. It sounds a lot like what Josh Harris and others like him have been saying, but it's good to be reminded that God is running the show.

I have a question though. Maybe I'm just showing my lack of scripture memorization, but I can't think of any biblical basis for the view that one should wait until one is content with being single before entering a courtship/dating relationship.

Couldn't one counter, 1) that we will never perfect our relationships with God while on earth, and so how would we know when we are "close enough," or 2) that persuing an intimate relationship, which is supposed to be a mirror of our relationship with God, is a concrete way to see how our relationship with God is supposed to be?

Don't get me wrong: I believe it is important to be content with being single first. But I'm drawing a blank right now as to how I would scripturally defend that postition.

-Evan

 

[tinkerbell]

I agree - we will never have a perfect relationship with God here on Earth. The point is that if we cannot be satisfied with God's love, we will not be satisfied with the love of others either. It will simply be a love that is trying to mask the void that only God can fill.

An intamite relationship is supposed to mirror our relationship with God, but we must remember that the source of love for a relationship that is a true mirror is God. If His love is not overflowing from us, we will not have that pure love to share with someone else. If we are constantly looking to humans for that love, we will never truely be happy, but if we've made a practice of getting it from God, we will be much more stable people.

You are right too, there is nothing said about this in the Bible. In those times, dating wasn't even thought of. I don't think there is either scriptural evediance to support OR refute this. I do however, feel that the Bible tells us in many ways how important it is to have a relationship with God first. After all, God is love. If we are going to put anything from 1 Corinthians into practice, we must first have love.

I understand that not everyone will agree with this. It's not right, or wrong, it's just a very good principle to live by I think. I know God has blessed me through this in a major way! And so far, it's how things in my life have played out.

 

[plum]

it's always a good thing to focus on falling in love with the Lord no matter what! awesome

 

[jesus_is_my_life]

Thanx, Tinkerbell, that was beautiful!

 

[smiling for God]

Thank you, that was inspiring and insightful.