When I was a little girl, my favorite books were fairy tales. Snow White, Cinderella, The little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast etc. I loved these stories! I never thought my life was a fairy tale, not even close, but those fairy tales inspired a life that I WANTED to live. They spoke to the little girl inside me who wanted mystery and beauty, danger and adventure and most of all, the prince with my 'happily ever after'. Im sure im not the only little girl who felt this way. :)
When you think of all these stories, most of them follow a similar pattern: Lovely girl grows up into a beautiful, brave and gifted woman, and through some sort of suffering and betrayal her prince appears.
As women, we long for intimacy and adventure, we all want to be the Beauty of some amazing story. God set these desires in our hearts. God created men and women in His own image, and our feminine hearts have been created as a reflection of Gods own heart.
God put a desire for romance in our hearts, you can try bury it or hide it, but its there, and it WONT go away!!! God loves romance! He created it. Jeremiah 29:13 - "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart". God wants to be pursued and so do we. Sometimes I feel like God put these desires in my heart to torture me, but of course He didn't, God placed these desires in my heart to guide me and help me discover the woman he made me to be and the life he created me to live. Psalm 37:4 - "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart".
The massive desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of Gods own massive desire and capacity for intimate relationships. God yearns for a relationship with us. John 17:3 "Now this is eternal life, that they may know you, the one true God". Gods heart mirrors our hearts. He desires all the same things we desire, to be loved, cherished above all others, trusted, cared for etc. Jeremiah 24:7 "I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart". How totally awesome to think that God is tenderhearted, and yearns for the same intimacy we crave, only in us. Gods greatest commandment is to love your God with your whole heart, mind and spirit. He wants to be sought after, desired and pursued, just like us! So why do we find it so hard to make Gods love for us tangible when we have so much in common? I dont know about you, but my closest female friendships were built on the sharing of experiences and sharing of emotions and finding out that other women felt the same as me...God feels the same as we do! He wants all the same things we do! :)
In most fairy tales there is the 'happy ending', where after some sort of problem, the prince rushes in on his white stallion and kisses the princess. In the case of snow white, she is awakened by this kiss from death. I would always imagine my hot prince being someone like Brad Pitt or Ashton Kutcher, but I realised that putting my trust in an 'earthly prince' is futile and only leads to dissapointment. We need our prince, who is Jesus, to kiss us awake, because Christs love is perfect! Everything else in this world is so volatile, and Christ needs to be our Number 1 romancer...our rock. :)
Jeremiah 31:3 - "I have loved you with an everlasting love".
Songs 4:9 - "You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride, you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes".
2 Samuel 22:2 "The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer".
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