Waiting and Dating in these streets is a true challenge, but knowing the right way to enjoy that season while taking your time to date with purpose and intentionality can lead to positive outcomes as you progress into your courtship and marriage season.
Society makes being single or unmarried seem like it’s such a negative thing. This makes people feel pressured to date whoever is available to them and sometimes end up with people just to have a companion, or to avoid feeling lonely; but in reality there are a lot of married people that feel lonely and alone.
There is a difference between being “alone” and being “lonely”. The scripture in Genesis chapter 2 says, it’s not good for man to be alone, and that’s true. But before Eve came along, Adam was alone but he was not lonely. Loneliness is a state of mind that creates a feeling of unworthiness and isolation. It’s a spiritual illness. Adam was alone because he was the only one of his kind, but as a person he was fulfilled, he was whole. He enjoyed full and open fellowship with His creator and exercised his God-given dominion over the created order. Adam was so preoccupied with doing what God had told him to do that he sensed no need for a mate…the truth is that, providing a mate for Adam was God’s idea.
To encourage someone in their waiting season, I'll share a powerful quote from the novel "The Art of Waiting, Lord When? It says..."I trusted an unknown future to a known God.” Be sure to checkout the book on Amazon.com or just click the link: https://godlypattern.com/media/
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