It’s the day before Valentine’s Day. My favorite part of Valentine’s Day? The cards from my grandparents and the candy.
Tomorrow is the day husbands treat their wives to a nice dinner and a bouquet of flowers.
It’s the day boyfriends get their girlfriends an oversized teddy bear and a box of chocolates. If they’re lucky, maybe some flowers, too.
It’s the day the restaurants and movie theaters will be full of couples celebrating days, weeks, months, years together.
And it’s the day that so many single girls spend wishing they had a boyfriend who would buy them flowers, tell them they’re beautiful, tell them they love them.
This post is to all of you girls- to all of you girls who are spending this Valentine’s day by yourself watching chick flicks and drowning yourself in self pity and chocolate.
While chick flicks and chocolate are pretty great, let me tell you, sweet girl, it’s not worth wasting your time on. Don’t waste your time, your precious teenage years, seeking after boys.
It’s just not worth it.
It’s not worth the heartbreak, it’s not worth the pieces of yourself that you will lose, it’s not worth hurting yourself like that over…and over…and over again.
Darling young girls, let me tell you something that I have held onto since I was young. Lean in and listen close because it’s really important.
You don’t have to search for love on this earth.
Yes, you heard me right.
No, I’m not crazy!
There is a God who is waiting to love you. He is waiting for you to cherish Him and to run to Him.
And He wants to love you more than any boy on this earth ever could.
His Son died so that He could love you.
Are you hearing that?
You don’t need a boy this Valentine’s day. You need to run to the love of the Father and never, ever let go. Because He won’t let go of you.
Now I know every girl’s dream is to meet a man and fall in love and wear that white dress that makes him cry.
I know because that’s my dream, too.
But here’s something else I’ve held onto for my entire life, throughout all of my teenage years.
The Lord will bring me that man. The Lord will show me exactly who he is and it will be in just the right time.
I look at so many young girls and girls my age…I hear their dating and breakup stories and it absolutely breaks my heart. They’ve given pieces of themselves to someone they knew they weren’t going to marry.
Sweet girl, save your heart for him, for that man you will marry. Wait for him!
Just as I believe God is writing my story, my fairy tale, I believe He is writing your’s, too.
And when it is all said and done, it will be your favorite story yet. You’ll love it more than Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast and maybe even Pride and Prejudice.
I was sitting in youth group two Wednesdays ago with my friend Caroline and we were watching a video of John Piper because our youth pastor was sick. He was speaking on Ephesians 5 and the roles a man and woman play in marriage.
Afterwards Caroline and I stood and talked…we stood and talked about how excited we are to meet that man. To meet the man who will lead us like Christ leads the church. To meet the man who will love us and cherish us like Christ does the church.
My friend, this is what the Lord wants for you. It’s what He wants for me. He wants us to marry the man who will lead us, love us and cherish us. And He wants nothing less because you are His daughter, He loves you and He cherishes you. He wants to see you loved and protected and following in His will.
Two nights ago I was looking at Instagram and came across a post by Ann Voskamp. It was a picture of her husband cleaning the kitchen and part of the caption read this, “I could weep for a quiet love like this, the kind that they don't write movies about, but the Maker writes down in a book of His own. It's not the kind of flashy that makes the red carpet, but it's the unforgettable love that runs red.”
I immediately texted this to Caroline knowing she would love it just as much as I did.
Because that’s just what I want! I want a love that the Maker writes down in a book of His own. I want an unforgettable love that runs red.
I want it in the man that the Lord has set out for me.
And sweet teenage girl, that’s what I want for you, too. It’s what the Father wants for you.
So right now, live in the love of the Father. He’ll give you more love than you ever thought imaginable.
While you live in His love, live being cherished by Him, He’s writing your fairy tale.
Run hard and fast to the love He is holding out for you.
Darling girl, He wants all of you. He made you so beautifully and He made you with a wonderful purpose and plan.
Spend this Valentine’s Day thanking Him for His love for you and this story that He’s writing.
Have no doubt it will be the best story you’ve ever heard.
~Bailey
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