Are You Ready???

(Proverbs 30:21-23) 'Under three things the earth is DISQUIETED, and under four it CANNOT BEAR Up... Under a servant when he reigns, a [empty-headed] fool when he is filled with food, AN UNLOVED and REPUGNANT WOMAN WHEN SHE IS MARRIED, and a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.'

 
When I read the above scripture verse this morning, it seemed to JUMP off the page straight to my heart. I now look back over my life and realize that when I really was aching to be loved and married, I WAS NOT READY! I've since learned that God postpones our desires when we are not delighted in Him first. Psalm 37:4 reminds us of it...."Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart."

I know a lot of single mothers (myself included) who are now or were left alone raising children mainly because they were looking for some man to fulfill a space that only God can fulfill. We often look outside ourselves to fulfill our desires for love, when LOVE is activated best when we are IN-Love with the One who is LOVE. How can we attract love when we don't actually have it from within first? Every physical manifestation of this life starts from within first. God wants to do the HEART work ON YOU FIRST so that you will be ready to attract what you REALLY desire. So I ask you have you done the HEART work to be ready for him who you desire?

If you haven’t, let's dig deeper and LOOK at the two words that God's Word says about women that DISQUIETS the earth and it CANNOT BEAR UP....

RE•PUG•NANT (r-pgnnt) adj. 1 Incompatible, Inconsistent 2 Hostile 3 Arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive

UNLOVED (unˈluvd) adj. 1 not loved or cared for 2 feeling neglected

Now, let's LOOK at the word we all desire....

LOVE (luv) n. 1. a person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; BELOVED. Often used as a term of endearment. 2. a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties

LOVE (luv) vb. 1. to hold dear, cherish 2. to feel affection or experience desire

LOVE (1 Corinthians 13:4-8) 4 LOVE endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. 5 It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. 6 It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. 7 Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. 8 Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].


God's LOVE REQUIRES A LOT!!! More than most of us as mothers are NOT ready to give this kind of love. We say we desire love but are we LOVE? God EMPOWERS us to give the LOVE that He wishes for us to experience. If we go after love WITHOUT Him, we become REPUGNANT and UNLOVED. This makes us DISQUIETED in our hearts and spirit. We then display it on the earth for the man that arrives into our lives. When he then experiences your display he CANNOT BEAR UP under it to be all that you desire him to be. It’s no wonder so many of us are left alone because we have not tapped into the POWER SOURCE to sustain us to give and experience love in a way that is BELOVED as God sees it.

So, I ask you again are you ready for LOVE? Have you done the HARD HEART work that is required to arrive to the place you desire? Are you willing to put in time to STUDY GOD and His ways by getting to know Him better through reading His Word and asking Him to guide your steps and keeping you in the shadow of His wings until you are ready? Being alone is an opportunity to PREPARE ourselves for the One our heart desires. We can then receive the one God has prepared to LOVE us as we desire.

Be encouraged and EMPOWERED moms, he is on his way to you as you move closer to the One who will send him. But God first desires to shower His Love on you so that you will be able to recognize him when he shows up. Remember….without God we are “repugnant and unloved”… not too appealing to him who is God sent. So, go and prepare for him, then you will be READY!