Becoming God's Best While Waiting for Mr. Right

I have just recently begun a new devotional book/journal and I am absolutely in love with it. It's called Lady in Waiting: Becoming God's Best While Waiting for Mr. Right. (by Jackie Kendall and Debby Jones, in case you are interested...which you may be after I blog about it a few times.) As I said, I just recently started but the basic idea of the entire book is like, 'it's cool to be single, use it to your best ability'. Kind of. There's a lot to it. Like, the first three chapters are:

1. Lady of Reckless Abondonment - We need to give EVERYTHING to God. Talking the talk is sweet, but if you can't walk the walk you're just like one of those backstabbing girls you meet in school who are nice to your face but sucky behind your back. (Those are my words, not the book's, by the way.) Seriously though, we have to give our words and our actions and, most of all, our hearts to Jesus. No more being a two-faced hoe. (again, my words.) Love God 100% and become a lady (or gentleman) of reckless abandonment! Your relationship with God will effect every relationship in your life.

2. Lady of Diligence - Sometimes being single sucks. Sometimes you feel like you should just sit at home on a Saturday night, eating ice cream and watching movies where you can pretend you are the girl who gets swept off her feet by prince charming and then cry when the movie ends and the only boys on the couch with you are what's left over of Ben and Jerry. (Or maybe that's just me?) But being single doesn't have to suck. It shouldn't suck. A lady of diligence spends her time of being single as a blessing. She takes advantage of the fact that she isn't tied down to other people/committments and uses her free time to serve the Lord. There's no time to waste. Get out there and live for God. He'll take care of you.

3. Lady of Faith - "Faith...a fruit whose blossoming aroma inspires one to victory, and sustains one after loss." JMK We HAVE to have faith. We have to believe that God has some beautiful boy out there who's heart is aching for the day that he can wrap us in his arms and tell us that we're the one he's been waiting for. We have to trust that he's out there, and that God has the perfect moment for us to meet him. We have to know that it's not our love story, it's God's. Do I struggle with this? Daily. There are days when I'm so scared that nobody will ever fall in love with me. That i'm never going to get married or have babies. That my fairytale won't come true. But i'm working on that everyday because I know that God is a much better writer than I am, and that if I have eyes of faith, my fairytale will be Oscar-worthy. =)


Those are just my thoughts on the first three chapters of this book. They are obviously brief and paraphrased and the book is worded with way more detail and stories. However, I already feel like it's helping my heart, and I want to share that feeling. I'm getting ready to read the fourth chapter tonight, and will try to update more (and better) blogs as I go on this journey of becoming God's best while i'm waiting for my wonderful Mr. Right.

"A woman is not born a woman. Nor does she become one when she marries a man, bears a child and does their dirty linen, not even when she joins a women's liberation movement. A woman becomes a woman when she becomes what God wants her to be."

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