Waiting for Your Future Spouse
Hi Beautiful,
Being single can have its perks, however, it can also bring loneliness. As a single Christian you should be submerged in the Word and the Lord, to prepare yourself for married life and everything after the I do's.
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
Proverbs 3:5-6
Finding the One
Before Christ, you date loads, have bad relationships, fornicate and a whole bunch of other things which are not intended for your life.
You want to conform an unequally yoked person to what you want instead, you find yourself deeper in sin than before. No matter what two people that aren't on the same page in anything will find it difficult to get along.
I've had non-Christian relationships with a Christian and tried to encourage prayer and church, and it all failed. I was forcing it and it ended up causing problems. When you yourself are not ready to seek salvation, how can you help your partner? Patience is key and loving and seeking Christ is important. Repenting and seeking salvation is key to your journey as a Christian. You have to learn to seek God and differentiate his voice from this world. It will train you for when you need to pray for your marriage ... hear from the Lord.
Trying to be with an unequally yoked person, is like fitting a triangle into a circle.
At first, it fits, as it's only the beginning, (It's always sweet at first).
Then as you continue you end up breaking bits of the triangle to get it to fit. In the end, you no longer have a triangle...you don't know what you have. It is the same for you, you start off with grace and you see this cute person or loving person, and you believe and convince yourself, without listening to the Lord that he/she is for you. You start changing and breaking yourself, start chopping bits off to fit them, you start becoming less of Christ and more of this thing..... more of nothing!
Do you know how great the Lord is, he is a giving God!
Waiting on the Lord to find the One
With the Lord, you don't lose yourself, but gain yourself.
You don't chop or break, but renew yourself. You learn to develop yourself, and when you meet your one-day spouse you both mold together as one. In turn, the Lord has chopped, and broken all the damaged pieces in your life, in preparation for the day you meet them. The wait may be long or short, Jesus died for our sins. When you learn to seek the Lord in all you do and wait, you will truly understand the desire to love your future spouse through the Lord. Everyone previous to this doesn't compare, doesn't match and you hardly remember.
You can wait for him or her, then wait with them till marriage.
Be BEautiful and Choose Happiness x