Hello Readers,
I apologize for the long gap in between posts. I've been saving all of my thoughts for one long rambling post. So if this seems random to you, it is. There are just some things I need to get off my mind.
The first thing I'd like to do is to give all of you below the age of 18 a little of my ancient wisdom. ENJOY where you are at in your life. It doesn't last long. I wish so much that I was still a little girl. Life was so simple and sweet. The biggest thing I had to worry about was whether or not my brother was going to be my "husband" or a "play dog"!! I know how much people talk about how great it is to be grown up but it is really not all it is cracked up to be. It is hard to know that the decisions you are making in your life have the ability to impact far more than just the rest of your day or week. The decisions you are now making have the ability to impact future generations. That is a very scary thought. So, while I am not disowning adulthood I do want people that are younger than me to realize that they need to enjoy every fleeting moment. Try to live every moment of time for God and you will not have regrets.
The second thing I want to share sort of ties into the whole age thing. I have come to a transition stage in my life. I have to decide whether or not to go to college, get a job, or stay at home. The difficult thing about these decisions is that the thing I most want to do with my life is something I can't do anything about. I want to be a wife and that hasn't happened yet. So, in this season of waiting for "Prince Charming" (and it really hasn't been that long of a season), God has been showing me a lot of things. One of those things is that we girls really need to pray. Not only for our future spouses but for all of our Christian brothers. They face a monumental task in rising up to be leaders, and face tough battles on every side. I've talked to so many girls who are in the same "predicament" that I am in as far as finding "Mr. Right". Some days it gets downright depressing to think about the lack of men. It is becoming an increasingly bigger problem with Christian girls. They are ready to be wives and mothers and step up, ready to launch into their roles, but there is an obvious shortage in the field of available men. But the thing that God has shown me is that while I had time to worry about all of this and time to focus on the "reasons" why men aren't ready to be married, I wasn't spending enough time in prayer for anyone except my future spouse. And while that is not a bad thing, I need to look at the big picture. The big picture is that there are more guys out there than just "mine." It is so important to lift these men up to the Lord in prayer. And not just the young, single ones either. We need to be praying for dads and grandpas. They are the ones who have the job to shape these guys and evidence is looking like there is some issues in the area of shaping. That is why they need our prayers, ladies. Our culture has been so thoroughly steeped in feminism and bad views of manhood, that it is getting increasingly harder to be a man, let alone a man who wants to be the best kind of real man there is: a Christian man. There are so many battles to fight to win in the war. I am not letting guys off of the hook saying this, either. They have a responsibility to grow up and be godly leaders but let's give them all of the help in our power. Let's help them fight the battle using the best tools we can. Prayer and the power of God's word!!!
Aight. Fine. But you can't say that guys are completely at fault here. Chicks have their issues too, and those issues depress us just as much.
ReplyDeleteHi!! Thank for stopping by my blog. My intention in writing this post was not to bash men. It was to encourage fellow sisters to be on the battlefield praying. Christian guys have an extremely hard battle to fight these days. They have to turn around and be different than what the culture tells them they should be, they have to fight against a predominantly feminist culture who thinks the world would be better of without them, and many times reverse generations of passive/ungodly male leadership in their home. I wasn't saying that girls don't have their issues. But, I believe that guys should be the leaders and in the position I am in I don't see a whole lot of guys doing this. I was in VA this summer on the campus of PHC and for the first time I saw men who I could tell were on fire for God and it gave me hope that there are Godly men. But since I have left that campus I've not seen one young, unmarried guy who I can tell has a passion for God and who is noticeably different than the non christian guys I see. Guys and girls are both responsible for their actions and I am not trying to take anyone off of the hook.
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