A few days ago a friend of mine and I were talking…the conversation turned to passed mistakes and those childish crushes we have all had. Then the conversation turned serous, when we started talking about were there really any guys out there still ~Set apart by God~. My answer to her was yes, yet it got me to thinking. As we look around today, in our culture of dating, breaking up and heart ache..it looks as if I was mistaken. Yet I know I wasn’t. Where our frustration comes in, is that from childhood we as women are taught to be leaders, take control, have a career and put it first, pursue guys, not to wait, conform to what the world thinks is right. In many cases, this leaves women heart broken…our cultures theology has a nice way of backfiring on us. Laying it all on the line, is today’s culture….not holding back, heaven forbid we be called churchy and pure. Yet getting called those names…should be an honor.(even if they are not meant to be) As Christian women, we are called to give to pen to our lives back to God, He writes our life story not us. Allowing Him to provide is the only way to not fall into the trap of today’s culture. Since we are called, in Romans to be set apart,
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - His good, pleasing, and perfect will." Romans 12:2
If we as women, hold back…grow in our spiritual lives, and trust God’s wonderful plan…a lot of headache can be avoided. Keep your standards high, Gods standard is the only one to live by. Most girls of today, give up those values of Biblical standards, for what our culture tells us is *acceptable*…this is not what we should be living by, the “acceptable” but the pure and holy. As it says in the Song of Solomon “"Like a lily among the thorns, So is my darling among the maidens." Holiness and purity, a white lily…is what we as women are called to.
