Earlier this week I stayed up late reading Eric and Leslie Ludy's book "When God Writes Your Love Story." I didn't realize on how much I need a refresher in the area of love life!
The Lord really convicted me (through Dad and the book! haha) that I have not been putting Him above my girl desire. I had become so concerned about keeping my standards high, and making sure I wasn't emotionally pulled in by any young man, that I forgot to maintain my relationship with the Lord.
I was reading in the staff room at work this morning, when I heard two of my coworkers talking about how they disagreed with another staff member not allowing her son to sleep over at a girl's place, even though the girl and her son were going to be in separate rooms. I overheard my coworkers saying how that it's normal that young people now lose their virginity early in their lives, then began talking of when they lost theirs. I could just feel every part of my being loathe such talk. How wrong! How totally rebellious to God's perfect plan for true love! How selfish, and how sinful! It just grieved my heart to think that immorality is now the norm. Yes, it's the norm...the norm of a hopeless life without God.
I'm now reading "Emotional Purity" by Heather Arnel Paulsen, and am coming more and more under conviction that purity after God's own heart is more than physical purity. Purity starts in the heart...and in the guarding of one's emotions. Proverbs 4:23 is coming alive to me, and God is truly burning it into my mind and heart. While reading, sometimes I feel so overwhelmed, and feel a twinge of sorrow and loathing that I actually have not guarded my heart vigilantly enough. Purity means a purity of heart, body, and soul...and by God's grace this is what I strive for in my singlehood...reserving myself for my "Prince Charming." ;)
By the way, I hate that term "Prince Charming." Haha.
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