When you're a little girl, you hear stories of a prince that will whisk you away to a castle for your happily ever after. As you grow older, (and as you get to know the male species), you find that fairy tales are just someone's twisted idea of a love that isn't truly real, but fictional - and so lose hope in your 'prince'.
There are so many flaws in that! And I'm not talking fairy tales, because that kind of 'perfect' love is too easy to be called love at all. But listen up sister... You are a Princess! You are the jewels crowning the head of your Maker. You are Beautiful, and you are Worthy of Love.
So often when we throw out the idea of a 'fairy tale', we cast off this crown with it. It's not a crown we even deserve, and yet Jesus has been sacrificed for us so that he may himself place this crown on our head and call us His.
...I know what you're thinking. "Yeah, yeah, so I'm a princess. So where's this prince that will whisk me off my feet?"
I wrestle with the same thought often. And it's hard, because God made us so relational, to desire a relationship, or crave that special intimacy that you can only share with one person. The truth is, I don't know who you're going to marry. I don't even know who I'm going to marry. But the fantastic news is... God does! And what better hands could your future beau be in?
What I'm really getting at is, no, fairytales aren't real. BUT: Someday our prince WILL come. No, he may not ride a horse. No, he may not have big fluffy sleeves. In fact, likely he'll be a slob. He'll have imperfections... and the coolest part is, as those weaknesses come out, God's power will rest there.
I'm saying, HOLD OUT. WAIT. Be PATIENT as God prepares your prince, and as He does His work in you. There are (it may surprise you to know) still really legit, God-seeking men out there. Don't settle. Set your standards for the kind of man God wants for you! High standards do not mean your expectations are too high, but that you see the worth in yourself as the daughter of a king. You deserve to be respected, valued, romanced, and loved for the fantastically exquisite being you are!
Sister, likely we are never going to stop every wistful wish for a relationship dead in it's tracks. But we need to stop romanticizing the idea of relationships over the real thing! (I implicate myself in this as much as anyone else.) I feel like so many of us just want to be in the relationship for the sake of being in one, and so few of us are truly ready.
The greatest relationships we can ever develop is our relationship with Jesus. No man should ever be compared to what we have in Him. No man could ever fill us the way Jesus does. No man could ever love as unconditionally, and as fiercely, and as passionately as your Jesus loves you. A man's love, as great as it will someday be, will only ever be an imitation of the love given to you by the One who loved you FIRST.
Sister... you are a Jewel. You are a Princess. With God, "Someday, my prince will come" becomes "In His perfect timing, my prince will come". In your time of waiting patiently... remember the Prince that has already come for you! How he is LONGING for your heart to be immersed in His perfect love!
Beautiful sister of mine, you are already loved.
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