Love is a big deal in our culture, especially with faster than ever communication. Music suggests songs like not being lonely anymore, falling in love, and feeling like a "teenage dream." Magazines whisper in our ears to look the best we can to impress the crush. TV shows and movies can go as far as having little kids kiss, have gushy love scenes, and lust. As a teenager, I know how hard it is to wait for our Prince Charming, and I know it gets exhausting after a long while.
"...Do not arouse or awaken love, until it so desires" Song of Solomon 2:7
Our culture is known to live in the moment, to grab life by the horns, then walk away naked and ashamed. Kids are getting into physical relationships with their crush, and so much more. I was watching Good Luck Charlie the other day when the mom said, "Relationships are all about compromises." Is this who we have become where we have to compromise the traits that God gave us?
Personally I have had no boyfriend, but let me tell you, I have had crushes before. I know what it is like. I know the feelings that you get when you see the person you like, how your heart pounds and your palms sweats. And these feelings are not wrong. God loves love and desires that we are never alone, but our motives into love matter and how much time we invest in them.
When there was one particular guy I liked, I prayed for him for fourteen days straight, and I've never stopped. During the fourteen days, I wrote him a letter for each day, explaining that I wanted to be a woman of God before anything else. I didn't text him for those fourteen days, and I learned something very important, and it was that I got even closer to my Heavenly Father.
I'm not saying to go AWOL on your crush like I did. It's all about what God wants for you, and I know fasts like that aren't meant for everyone. But what I am trying to say is that God loves you no matter what, and His love is a parachute, no matter what broken hearts you've had.
God looks at you and sees a princess (or a prince, if your a boy reading this.) He loves you more than anything in the whole entire world! While we wait for our beloved, let's remember the one who loved us before we were even concieved. God sees us as beautiful, the literal breath of God in our hearts. He came down to Earth as Jesus (as my pastor says, God with skin on) and came to give us a life of hope, of joy, and of peace.
So Prince Charming, I know your out there somewhere. But right by my side right now, is my Father, and He is my life, my ultimate love.♥
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