Pursuit of the Gospel

Has marriage and dating been a desire of my heart? Yes. However, after this summer, I can say that I am totally, completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with my God and my Savior. Is marriage still a desire? Yes. But, only for the sole purpose to bring God glory. He fulfills my every need and provides me with so much. His grace is overwhelming, and He has clothed me in His righteousness. His love for me is overflowing, more than I will ever need. I know I can lean on Him in faith. I know the singleness I am in now is such a gift from Him to sink my roots deeper into who He is. Settling on a boy? Not an option. I'm going to wait for my pitch, whenever it comes. Am I crying right now? A little. Because I deserve none of this. I deserve to have been passed up by this awesome God, but He had other plans in mind. All throughout the Bible, you see glimpses of the gospel. At camp, we found the gospel in the genealogy of Genesis 5. Because I'm an idiot, I didn't write that one down. However, sometimes I feel like God is like Waldo, and I am searching for Him daily. Twenty minutes ago, I found Him. Y'all. Check out the story of finding Isaac a wife in Genesis 24. This is the longest chapter in the book, showing that marriage is important. However, check out verse 6. The servant shouldn't have to get the woman by showing her Isaac; she should come out of faith. My husband should be leaning so far on God that if God weren't real, he would fall on his face. I've got to wait on the Lord. If I trust Him with my eternity, I should trust Him with this. In the end, Rebekah goes back with the servant to marry Isaac. Check out the gospel in all this. The servant was a servant of the father. The father sent him on a mission to go off into a land to declare good news to a chosen bride and tell her the story of a father who had a son. And this father had all of his goods and had given them to his son. And this son had sent out a messenger to find her and preach the good news that you could come be a part of this family and a part of blessing this whole world, but you've got to walk by faith. You've got to go by faith. So there's this climatic moment when they leave it up to Rebekah as she stands in the middle of her family, and they all look at her and say, "Young woman, what are you going to do?" And she says the same thing Abraham did long ago. She says, "I'll go." And she walks by faith with a man of faith until he brings her to that chosen bridegroom who she gets to live with forever.

What's up GOSPEL?!

Y'all, God is so stinkin' good!