Sunday, March 3, 2013

Salvation Sunday: (Super Post-Valentine's) Cherishing Singleness


Slowly, the answers to my soul-searching-phase-questions are being answered and one of those questions has something to do with dundundun....Singlehood :)) LOL! Super funny yet timely that it was shared in this Sunday's service. It might sound bitter, but really?? Does it?

I believe it is more of being reflective :) The following article pretty much says everything about singleness and it being a gift!

On His Plan For Your Mate

Everyone longs to give himself completely to someone: to have a deep soul relationship with another; to be loved thoroughly and exclusively. But, God to a Christian says, no, not until you are satisfied, fulfilled, and content with being loved by Me, alone. With giving yourself totally and unreservedly to Me. To having an intensely personal and unique relationship with Me, alone. Discovering that only in Me is your satisfaction to be found, will you be capable of the perfect human relationship that I plan for you. 
You will never be united with another until you are united with Me, really united with another, exclusive of anyone, or anything else, exclusive of any other desires or longings. I want you to stop planning, stop wishing, 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. Just keep watching Me...expecting the greatest things. Keep experiencing the satisfaction that I Am. And keep listening and learning the things I tell you. 
You just wait, that's all...wait. Don't be anxious, don't worry, don't look around at the things that others have gotten or I have given them. Don't look at the things you think you want. Just keep on looking off and away to Me, or you will miss what I want to show you. And then, when you are ready, I'll surprise you with a love far more wonderful than anything you would dream of. 
You see, until you are ready and until the one I have for you is ready, and I am working even at this moment to have both of you ready at the same time. Until you are both satisfied exclusively with Me and the life I prepare for you, you won't be able to experience the love that exemplifies your relationship with Me. And this is perfect love. And, dear one, I want you to have the most wonderful love. 
I want to see in you, in the flesh a picture of your relationship with Me. And I want you to enjoy materially, the everlasting union and beauty and perfection and love that I offer you with Myself. I know that I love you utterly. I am El Shaddai-most loving Father, God Almighty. Believe it and be satisfied and I will satisfy you. 
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Retrieved from: http://www.majesty.org/tract/mate.html 
Singleness does not translate to loneliness. Instead it translates to aloneness (satisfaction in God's love alone)

Singleness is not a consolation to not getting married (or having a partner, at least). Instead, it is a high form of calling.
From: sheenalovessunsets.com