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I have no idea what constitutes this for other people but I have determined a few signs to watch for in my own life.
*When things I do for fun are too much trouble to bother with.
*When all new music is "just a bunch of noise."
*When I can no longer take stairs two at a time.
*When I no longer occasionally sprint across the parking lot to my car just because running sometimes is fun.
I'm a flat 40 years old and none of these things have happened yet, so I guess I haven't reached that level of old yet.
*When things I do for fun are too much trouble to bother with.
*When all new music is "just a bunch of noise."
*When I can no longer take stairs two at a time.
*When I no longer occasionally sprint across the parking lot to my car just because running sometimes is fun.
I'm a flat 40 years old and none of these things have happened yet, so I guess I haven't reached that level of old yet.
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Perhaps there's room for grace to accept the flaws in another person? Remember when God laid a blanket of non-Kosher animals for Peter, Peter rejected them but God reminded him that what God has made clean, do not call unclean. I'm not saying lets chase after the crazy cat lady who has a world of problems but maybe look at the people God placed in front of you. She might be the girl who messed up and genuinely repents and continues to seek after God - her heart might be in the right place. After all, marriage brings two sinners at the foot of the cross.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/my-wife-has-tattoos-marriage-and-new-birth/
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/my-wife-has-tattoos-marriage-and-new-birth/
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Well shoot, if it worked for Rebekah...
Not only did offering to water those camels find her a husband, but he was the son of the richest and most prestigious man in all the land.
I say, why not take advantage of living in these times of supposed equal opportunity.
Therefore, I suggest offering to water some strange woman's cats (most especially if there are several), because you never know what might happen.
Not only did offering to water those camels find her a husband, but he was the son of the richest and most prestigious man in all the land.
I say, why not take advantage of living in these times of supposed equal opportunity.
Therefore, I suggest offering to water some strange woman's cats (most especially if there are several), because you never know what might happen.
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The woman in the Bible wasn't even trying to get ANYBODY'S attention. She was just being nice to the man with the thirsty camels.
I'm telling you, cheese would work great. Especially here in southwest Tennessee... you can get water ANYWHERE down here. There's streams and creeks and rivers all over the place. We have heard of drought, but that's something that happens in other places.
Go with cheese. It will work.
I'm telling you, cheese would work great. Especially here in southwest Tennessee... you can get water ANYWHERE down here. There's streams and creeks and rivers all over the place. We have heard of drought, but that's something that happens in other places.
Go with cheese. It will work.
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Before I offend too many people with my jokes...
I hate to keep mentioning this because so many people here already know this about me, but here goes.
When I was 25, my then-husband left me for a 19-year-old redhead that we both worked with. I came home one day from work and half the house was gone. He had moved out without any warning or hint, and a not long after that, I received papers in the mail with the headline, "You Are Being Sued For Divorce."
I have a bit of an idea of how hard it is to find a good Christian spouse, so I completely empathize with anyone who is looking and I have several crazy stories to tell about the dating world that I have often shared here in Singles.
I've also followed all the good Christian advice you will find people giving over and over again for 20 years, and God has yet to cross my path with a husband, but maybe it's His will, and I've been working on accepting that.
As a single, you just can't win. People will tell you to throw your life into serving the Lord, and that you'll meet someone along the way, but then when you try to tell them that you've done that and are still strugglinrag, they'll tell you that you shouldn't even talk about it, lest you boast about your good deeds and therefore lose your reward in heaven.
I participated in the things I did not because I was trying to find something to boast about, and not just because I was trying to meet a good Christian man. I threw myself into every ministry I could find--Children's Church, Tween Church, choir, cleaning, classes, prayer groups, Bible studies, outreaches, ministries that involved talking to veterans, and a ministry that found me talking to guys in their 30's who were serving life sentences for crimes such as shooting their parents as a teenager--because I was lost, broken, unspeakably lonely, and desperate to get "closer to God" as all the good Christian advice tells you to do.
I never found a husband (maybe still someday? I don't know--that's up to God.)
But what I did find is that God CAN change your focus, and change your heart, but it is often in ways you never would have thought of (or entered into willingly), and takes a whole lot longer than you ever expected.
But that is just me.
Humor is one way that I mask the pain of feeling the things I don't want to admit, lest I be stoned with more good Christian advice, such as the pain of feeling as if God has overlooked me, but yet handed spouses out to everyone else around me.
We are all on individual walks with our Lord--may He bless you with the comfort of His presence during yours.
I hate to keep mentioning this because so many people here already know this about me, but here goes.
When I was 25, my then-husband left me for a 19-year-old redhead that we both worked with. I came home one day from work and half the house was gone. He had moved out without any warning or hint, and a not long after that, I received papers in the mail with the headline, "You Are Being Sued For Divorce."
I have a bit of an idea of how hard it is to find a good Christian spouse, so I completely empathize with anyone who is looking and I have several crazy stories to tell about the dating world that I have often shared here in Singles.
I've also followed all the good Christian advice you will find people giving over and over again for 20 years, and God has yet to cross my path with a husband, but maybe it's His will, and I've been working on accepting that.
As a single, you just can't win. People will tell you to throw your life into serving the Lord, and that you'll meet someone along the way, but then when you try to tell them that you've done that and are still strugglinrag, they'll tell you that you shouldn't even talk about it, lest you boast about your good deeds and therefore lose your reward in heaven.
I participated in the things I did not because I was trying to find something to boast about, and not just because I was trying to meet a good Christian man. I threw myself into every ministry I could find--Children's Church, Tween Church, choir, cleaning, classes, prayer groups, Bible studies, outreaches, ministries that involved talking to veterans, and a ministry that found me talking to guys in their 30's who were serving life sentences for crimes such as shooting their parents as a teenager--because I was lost, broken, unspeakably lonely, and desperate to get "closer to God" as all the good Christian advice tells you to do.
I never found a husband (maybe still someday? I don't know--that's up to God.)
But what I did find is that God CAN change your focus, and change your heart, but it is often in ways you never would have thought of (or entered into willingly), and takes a whole lot longer than you ever expected.
But that is just me.
Humor is one way that I mask the pain of feeling the things I don't want to admit, lest I be stoned with more good Christian advice, such as the pain of feeling as if God has overlooked me, but yet handed spouses out to everyone else around me.
We are all on individual walks with our Lord--may He bless you with the comfort of His presence during yours.
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