Present and Joyful
So, thought that I’ve been mulling over this year.
You can be joyfully present, & abundant in singleness, & still pray for marriage.
Longing for marriage is not a bad thing. It can be a good thing, as marriage is something that God has ordained, and has said, since the beginning, is good. Even very good. The problem comes in, when eyes get fixed on it, and we make the prayer for the gift an idol, and become fixated on it.
But, the thing I am realizing this year is that it can go both ways. We can let the longing become an idol, & we can let the fear of it become an idol. It's easy to sit in fear of the future, and to then replace the hope and knowledge of God's goodness with the fear of things that are so unknown, like marriage.
Our God is good. He has never wasted a season. He will never waste a season, not in your life or in anyone's life that is yet unknown.
We can trust His perfect plan, because we can trust Him--He is Who He says He is.
This time? It’s not an in between. It’s a full season, and this season? It's not wasted. And we can acknowledge the longing we have for a thing yet to come, and be joyfully, passionately, wholly seeking Him and His Kingdom here.