Good morning. My heart continues to be overwhelmed by the fact that you are my God.
I was listening to a message on marriage this morning on my way to work. Lord I cannot imagine what our society would be like without your covenant of marriage.
We would be so caught up and consumed with sex, evil and wickedness. We would be drowning in sin without a clue as to why we keep repeating the act over and over again. The sexually transmitted diseases would go on and on and on. There would be an infinite amount of children with no fathers, no sense of identity and no sense of love or belonging.
Our flesh, our feelings and our hearts would be broken beyond repair. Without your covenant of marriage, without your unconditional and unending love for us, we would spend our lives effortlessly wandering and desparately seeking that someone to love us and accept us and to fill a void that only comes from intimacy with YOU!
Our souls would be zombies going around and around the universe, never fully knowing or understanding how to fill that emptiness.
Thank you for designing a covenant of marriage and giving a man and a woman a purpose. And that sole purpose is to bring glory to your name to multiply the earth within a family structure ordained by your word and not the world's view of sleeping around and abandoning our women and children. You did this all because you love us that much.
<>< Genesis 2:19-24
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
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Father God, thank you for giving me the patience, the ability and the desire to wait on you. I have been divorced since 2007 and my heart longs for a deeper level of intimacy with you and you alone my Lord.
I deeply thank you that I am not longing for a mate. I do not feel alone. And I do not feel a desire to go search or seek for that special someone to fill something within me.
It is my prayer to one day be a godly wife and to bring glory to your name within my marriage. But, because I know you, because I love you, and because I trust you, my heart is content whether you gift me with a husband or not.
As you know this is what the world calls the month for "lovers," and I pray Father God that you would love extra on those women and young girls who feel alone and who have yet to discover that you are the only one that can meet all that their hearts desire. That you are the lover of their souls!
I pray that you would gently whisper into the ear of the women who are sexually involved with a partner that is not their husband. That you would use your loving, gentle, and compassionate voice just as you did for me. I thank you that I was #listening when your Holy Spirit told me to get out of that bed and to walk away from that relationship. I heard you when you said, "My daughter that is not my will for your life."
Thank you for loving me that much. Thank you for wanting the best for me when I had no clue what that was. Thank you that I am no longer led by my feelings, but by my faith.
I love you.
Eternally yours
