This post a shout out to some of my female readers. This post is for you, or more accurately, for us.
The number of times I have heard the statement, "Guys just don't like girls like me" is far too many. The number of times I have thought it is more. Maybe you think your personality is too strong or perhaps that you're too shy Maybe you don't have the body you want, and you're hurt when you see guys chase after girls who do. You think you're too feminine, or that you're too much "one of the boys" Whatever it is you think, you despair that no man on this earth will care for you. This post is for you. For you who hurt when you're overlooked once again. For you who earnestly prays "Lord, please, let me be content now in singleness" and faces each day with a brave face, trying not to let loneliness win. The one who feels guilty for feeling that Christ's love isn't enough, and shame for wanting a relationship. This post is for you. Or, as I said, for us. We have focused too much on our desires, and not enough about what our desires reveal. I want each of you to think of your day today. Now think of your week. Now the past month, the past 2 years. Think of the absolute hardest things you've gone through in your entire life, and the very pinnacle of your existence when you thought "This moment here, I am truly happy. This is joy." Think of how different you were back then, and remember how 5 years ago you pictured yourself in the future. Notice how different you've actually become. I want you to intimately notice how you have grown into the person you are today. Look at the ways your strengths have grown, look at how familiar you are with weakness-- and because of that, how familiar you are with taking courage. Think on it. Selah Now answer this: Is following God worth it? Is it? Is following God worth it? If you have to relive everything your life has been to up to this moment now, is following God worth it? If you had to re-experience the worst things of your life, is Christ worth it to you? Has everything up until now in your life been worth it to know and follow Christ fully, to grow in understanding Him and submitting to Him? Is it worth it to you? If you can answer "yes," then I ask this: Is following Christ worth it when you're not in a relationship? Is He worth it, even if you never get married? If God spoke to you right now and said that he has a plan for you, but it means giving up your dream of marriage and kids, would following Him be worth that sacrifice? Yes. It is. We know it is because we look back at everything we've been through, and retrospection allows us to say "Everything I have done is what I did. And what I did is follow Jesus." Even in the times we sinned, that fact that we still want to follow God demonstrates the Spirit's faithfulness within us when we waver. In each time we have failed, God brought us back. We know that our entire lives have been spent stumbling imperfectly toward a perfect love. Being confident in this, we can say without hesitation that Christ is worth it. And since God never changes, we know that if he was worth it in the past he shall be worth it in the future. There will soon come a day when we will pray in gratitude, looking back every year we lived. And it will have been worth it. So when we think "guys just don't like girls like me" reframe it to reflect a Biblical truth. Remember everything in your life that tells you Christ is worth it. You must know this intrinsically, must think on this deeply. It must be so rooted in our souls that no obstacle or suffering causes us to falter. We may feel sorrow or loneliness but can be content knowing what, or who, those things drive us toward. For me, Christ is worth depression. He is worth relationships. He is worth losing sleep, losing a grade. He is worth moving home. He is worth reconciling with a friend, and he is worth losing a friend. He is worth working a part time job and living at home while trying to fundraise in a network that thinks everything I love is foolishness. Christ is always and forever worth it. Amen. It's more than knowing that God loves you deeply. It's more than trusting Him with your future. It's even more than that Christ is enough. It's knowing that He has always been enough and He will always be enough. He has been, is, and will be worth it, because that's simply who he is. I AM WHO I AM I AM WHAT I AM I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE YHWH Exodus 3:14 Rachel Fruit and Labor
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