Yeah girl.

Alright.

God is good.

He's got a master plan.

DUH he's the MASTER!

You know what he gives?

Rest. Peace. Contentment. Belonging. Satisfaction. Encouragement.

Girls....you don't need a man to complete you.

Only Jesus can do that.

When you recognize that, being single is no longer a bad thing!

It's what gives you more time to seek him!

Single life should NOT be spent looking for a partner.

Single life should be spent LIVING.

God will place your partner right in front of you while you're LIVING for him.

He will, I promise.

His plan. Not yours.

His timing. Not yours.

I know what you're thinking... "But I'm wasting all this time! I want to be with my future husband now!"

Nope.

He who waits on God loses no time, because God's timing is perfect.

You see...God isn't late. And he's definitely not early.

He knows what he's doing.....don't worry about it!

He's got you! He promises! And so do I :)

SO GO! Live!

Throw your map out the window.

Here's the thing. I'm a girl. I have a lot of ideas about how my life should be. I have so many plans that I can't even enjoy where I'm at in life, because I'm so focused on how to get to the future that I've had planned since I was 5. Or at least I used to.

Here's what I've learned.

My plans are just that, MINE. Do you know where my plans got me? To a college 3 hours away from the support system I needed, majoring in a subject that was more stressful than satisfying and, surrounded by temptation that I gave into, time and time again. My plans produced failure, frustration, and immense amounts of hurt.

The best thing I ever did was throw the map that I had drawn, in the trash. 

I picked up the only map I knew would lead me home. God's word. 

There's a whole lot to my story. And I don't even know the ending, except I do.

God's Kingdom. That's my ending. That's my plan. That's what I'm striving for.

Everything else is temporary and insignificant.

For the first time ever. I can say and truly believe that I'm ok. I'm right where God has me, as he has me. I don't know where I'll be in 5 years, or even in 2 years for that matter. What I know, is that I am held in the palm of my Creator's hand and that he has a map drawn that will lead me home. 

When you're young people ask, what do you want to be? But the truth is, that doesn't matter. It's all about who's you are. I am Christ's child. Through that, I will become what I am to be, because I will be exactly what he created me for. What I have a hard time wrapping my mind around is that it doesn't matter what "that" is. It doesn't matter what I am because if I am seeking Christ, I will be fulfilling the purpose that was set for me before the earth was formed. 

He is satisfaction.

You satisfy me more than the richest feast. I will praise you with songs of joy. Psalm 63:5

He satisfies more than the richest feast, so why are we still eating at McDonalds?

What's it going to take for us to fully grasp that he is the ultimate everything. Our voids cannot be filled with the natural, but only with the supernatural. 

Satisfaction means meeting expectations, fulfilling needs and desires.

Christ fulfills every need, quenches every desire, and meets every expectation.

To be honest, I never really understood that, until now. And even when Satan throws doubt at me, I can cast him out and proclaim that my satisfaction is found in my Jesus and that his deception to make me believe otherwise is futile. For even when my flesh doubts, my soul states that I am whole in my Jesus. 

And that, ladies and Gentleman, is all that matters. 

Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives. Psalm 90:14

Beautiful

I got up this morning, and in my head I was singing "Beautiful" by Phil Wickham. I turned it on, and had a straight up worship sesh laying in my bed, at home.

I see Your face in every sunrise
The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakens in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say
You're beautiful

I see Your power in the moonlit night
Where planets are in motion and galaxies are bright
We are amazed in the light of the stars
It's all proclaiming who You are
You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see you there hanging on a tree
You bled and then you died and then you rose again for me
Now you are sitting on Your heavenly throne
Soon we will be coming home
You're beautiful, you're beautiful

When we arrive at eternity's shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we'll sing
You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, I see Your face
I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

Beautiful is defined as this...

1. having beauty;  having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind:

2. excellent of its kind:

3. wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying.

4. the concept of beauty  (usually preceded by the ).

5. ( used with a plural verb ) beautiful things or people collectively (usually preceded by the )

6 .the ideal of beauty  (usually preceded by the ):

7. wonderful; fantastic:

8. extraordinary; incredible:

 

God is every bit of those words in the definition.

The first definition stuck out at me most. "having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about..etc" -- 

 

Our creator is everything. 

He's everything we need to be satisfied and whole.

He's enough.

 

And that is beautiful.

 

Have you taken a moment to sit quietly in the awe of a God who designed you before time?

He loves you. And that word love, get's thrown around too easily now days.

His love for you is a love that doesn't waiver. It's full and unconditional.

 

He's everything that is wonderful, fantastic, genuine, passionate, and amazing.

 

It's taken me too long to begin to understand the fullness of the love that God offers, don't be like me. Take him now, don't waste any more time! He died because he wants you!

 

He loves you...will you let him in?