“Stop Shrinking To Fit Places You’ve Outgrown.”

Song of Solomon 8:4

Take the warning seriously about love. (Songs of Solomon 8:4)

God wants you to enjoy love with the one He has given you. He wants to enjoy love with you. He wants you to enjoy love with the one He has given you. He wants you to enjoy it in a proper fashion. This is the reason God warns THREE times in the Song about stirring up or awakening love before its time.

“Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you: do not stir up or awaken love until the appropriate time.” (Song of Solomon 8:4, HCSB

The Song even acknowledges how hard it is to be this patient.

“Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you: if you find my love, tell him that I am lovesick.” (Song of Solomon 5:8, HCSB)

Many times, we want to strike the spark of love before we are ready. God warns us to be patient. Of course, it doesn’t help that we live a society that pushes that on us. Society pressures us. Whether it is the pressure of giving gifts and cards on Valentine’s Day, or selling us sex in a movie like Fifty Shades of Grey, society wants to tell you how to love. We must remember Who our source of love is.

“The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:8, HCSB)

God is love and He is our Source of love. We will not get the most satisfaction of love without Him. So we need to take God’s warning here seriously about romantic love. At the same time, we need to learn to be faithful and enjoy the one God gives us to express our love.

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Could use some words of encouragement I'm not feeling God's love and I'm losing hope that he'll give me what I've been praying for.❤️

“There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”

— Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (via books-n-quotes)

God will not ask you to do something and just let you go off and do it on your own. He will help you begin it, He will show you how to accomplish it, He will continue to be there as you undertake the task, and He’ll help you carry it out to completion. He won’t just be waiting at the end for you - He is walking the race WITH you. He is not like your boss who will show you how to do something and leave you to it. He is not like your parents who will support you but leave you to grow independence. He is not like your friends who support you until they meet you at the finish line.

He is God.

He will be helping you achieve the task He wants you to do and will not leave you at any point during.

Turn to Him and ask where He is in the task He has set before you. If He wants you to do it then you’d better believe He’ll assist you in making in happen. He knows you need His help and can’t accomplish His plan alone.

— Enchanted, 2007.

You are blooming. Please give yourself time.