Waiting for the Mr or Miss Right!
Waiting for the right one….
Gen 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
The average Australian marriage lasts just 7.2 years at the moment and sadly this percentage is now shadowed with marriages within the church.
One of the saddest things Helen and I have witnessed over our 35 plus years of pastoring, has been the impetuous individual who takes the matter of finding a mate into their own hands, often completely ignoring the Bible’s instructions as to what makes a Christian mate or a Christian marriage.
They seek out in desperation and impatience to find a mate and ultimately they end up searching in places where Christ is not honoured, welcomed and usually totally ignored. In other words they start fishing in unchartered waters!
In the book of Genesis, God saw that Adam was alone and that it was not good for him. So God determined to give Adam a partner to complete him and to partner him.
Adam is placed in a deep sleep and God takes a rib from him and creates Eve and then in Genesis 2:22 it says and He brought her to the man!
In the second biggest decision in your life, after firstly receiving Christ as your Lord and Saviour, is the decision of marrying the person God has planned for you.
You may be reading this note and saying to yourself, “That’s fine for everyone else but I have been waiting and nothing has happened and I have been waiting a long time!”
My answer to your question and impatience is twofold:
Praise the Lord you have not taken matters into your own hands and therefore you are in the perfect situation in your life for God to do to you as He did to Adam. Also you are not enduring a relationship founded on a shifting foundation.
Continue to serve God and be patient and God will indeed bring along His creation for you who will love you, complete you and be a blessing to you.
Parents instil into your teens this message and promise from God’s Word.
One of the greatest blessings of being a parent is seeing your son or daughter marry the one God has chosen for them. Someone who loves them, and loves their relationship with Jesus Christ as well.
A final lesson that I have learned over the years in my walk with Christ is that God is never in a hurry!
Jas 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
The blessing will come as you wait on the Lord to bring to you His ‘perfect match’.