Most days I am completely okay with it. I am a fairly independent person and a strong introvert so I do need a lot of time on my own.
Some days though I feel lonely, really lonely.
Today is one of those days.
One of those days that I wish I had someone to go for a walk with, watch a movie with, study the Bible with... walk through life with. It happens every once and a while and I'm still learning how to combat these deep feelings of loneliness. It's on days like today that I realize that I'm not believing that Jesus alone is enough.
I think it's okay to want to be with someone, to want to get married - after all, God created us as social and emotional beings who long for relationship. A Godly relationship is a good thing. Although, as Mark Driscoll says, "Idolatry is taking a good thing and making it a god thing and that's a bad thing." Relationships/longing for a relationship is definitely an idol that I struggle with. It consumes a lot of my thought life sometimes and often I find my heart aching for someone.
Days when I'm feeling so lonely, instead of turning to girly movies and Christian romance novels I need to turn to Jesus. I need to surrender my loneliness to Him and lean on His promise that He will never leave me or forsake me (Hebrews 13:5). I need to remember that true love is when a Man wipes your tears even after you left him hanging on the cross for your sins. No man will EVER even come close to filling the void that only Jesus can fill. I don't want to look back on my season (or life) of singleness and see a time of lost potential - potential to spend as much time with Jesus is possible. I don't want to waste it wishing and longing and dreaming about a husband, I want to spend it giving Jesus my all and serving Him wholeheartedly. I'm not sharing all of this because I have it all figured out, I'm sharing it because I don't. I'm still learning.
Today is one of those days.
One of those days that I wish I had someone to go for a walk with, watch a movie with, study the Bible with... walk through life with. It happens every once and a while and I'm still learning how to combat these deep feelings of loneliness. It's on days like today that I realize that I'm not believing that Jesus alone is enough.
I think it's okay to want to be with someone, to want to get married - after all, God created us as social and emotional beings who long for relationship. A Godly relationship is a good thing. Although, as Mark Driscoll says, "Idolatry is taking a good thing and making it a god thing and that's a bad thing." Relationships/longing for a relationship is definitely an idol that I struggle with. It consumes a lot of my thought life sometimes and often I find my heart aching for someone.
Days when I'm feeling so lonely, instead of turning to girly movies and Christian romance novels I need to turn to Jesus. I need to surrender my loneliness to Him and lean on His promise that He will never leave me or forsake me (Hebrews 13:5). I need to remember that true love is when a Man wipes your tears even after you left him hanging on the cross for your sins. No man will EVER even come close to filling the void that only Jesus can fill. I don't want to look back on my season (or life) of singleness and see a time of lost potential - potential to spend as much time with Jesus is possible. I don't want to waste it wishing and longing and dreaming about a husband, I want to spend it giving Jesus my all and serving Him wholeheartedly. I'm not sharing all of this because I have it all figured out, I'm sharing it because I don't. I'm still learning.
"As a single woman, give your heart fully, wholly, unabashedly, and devotedly to Christ alone."I'm sure that there will be many more days of loneliness, but may they be times when I am reminded that Jesus alone is enough and cling to Him even more. What if I'm single for 10 more years, or 20, or for the rest of my life? Then Jesus will still be enough. As hard as that is to say, He is enough. Him and Him alone.
"And He has said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weakness, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me." - 2 Corinthians 12:9
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