-Was at work today, making bread as usual when an EdWin McCain song came on called ‘I’ll be.’ Most of us know this song because it is a very popular love song. Just about the part where the chorus sings, ‘I’ll be your crying shoulder’ I looked up and saw an older couple holding hands praying before they ate. My heart melted, and I said aloud ‘I want that’. I want that beautiful Godly romance with my wife. To be able to sit down with the woman I love and pray with her. And if your reading this you probably want that as well. I’ve talked to many people my age, (also older and younger) that this has been their main thing on there mind lately. To be in a romance and to fall in love with a significant other.
– Now I’ve heard eHarmony has nothing on the World Race. People go on the Race, spend a year with different people and find their spouse. I actually had a friend that just got back from the Race and is now engaged with a woman He met while on the Race. So of course going into the Race that is definitely on my mind and probably yours as well. If we were honest some of us would agree that we have this idea floating in our minds quiet often. Some of us have probably already checked who they would be best ‘compatible’ with on our squad and if I were honest I would tell you that I have done the same thing. WHICH IS COMPLETELY NORMAL!! Am I not on a journey to find my wife? Is it not a hearts desire to find your spouse? Isn’t it in the norm for a man to be attracted to another female and vice versa? Then all that guilt I was feeling wasn’t from God then? Nope. Glad to say I’m normal and attracted to girls, Godly girls at that. But there is a situation here, this is an area I have to guard my heart on because I have pledged a year of singleness. I didn’t join this Race to find the heart of a woman, I was called to this Race to find the heart of God.
– Like I said earlier, I have talked with many people around my age that is burning for someone to love and for someone to love them back. They think that love they are yearning for is for a human but in reality it was put there for God. Proverbs 27.20 says ‘Just as Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so human desire is never satisfied.’ This desire to love and be loved isn’t made for humans alone, it definitely doesn’t start off with a human. I have dated my fair share of girls with which I have told them I loved them but then months later it was gone. My love ran out and their love didn’t satisfy me any longer. It was because I was putting their love first. This hole in my heart was not meant to be filled with a woman’s love but Gods. For a heart of a man has no depths and is unsearchable. (Proverbs 25.3) but the love of God has no depths, height, widths. (Ephesians 3.18-19) So this new heart of mine wasn’t to be filled by dust but the love of God. Only He can satisfy my hearts desire to be romanced, I cannot romance if I haven’t been romanced in the first place. If I am to romance my wife I am of need of being romanced by the Greatest Romancer of all time, God. If I am wanting to love my wife for the rest of my life I am going to need to do that with the love of Christ, for His love never runs out. My love alone will not do anything but fade away like the beauty of a flower. But what if I loved her through Christ? Then that love would be Eternal. So I want this year to be a journey to find the heart of God and to apply that love to my life and to share it with Family, friends, and my wife (in the Future).
-So, they are right. eHarmony has nothing on the World Race. Where eHarmony gives us a chance to find a special somebody, the Race gives me a chance to be loved by God who makes us feel special and worth it. O God, Guard my Heart and let Your love find me where im at. Prepare me for my wife and i pray that she is running for your arms and not mine. Jesus, let your love be heard and known.
