When Dating Feels Hard Read These Scriptures
I remember sitting on my bed crying. It was happening AGAIN. One more guy who promised he’d call to set up our date but didn’t. One more guy who was ghosting me. I had hoped that THIS one would be different. Maybe this is the one I had been waiting for!
Nope. He wasn’t. And as the realization dawned on me I remember sighing through my tears and saying out loud to an empty room: “I just want someone to love me.”
Have you been there? If you’re a woman in the dating game I’m pretty sure you have been at least once, right?
If you’re anything like me, you were in that spot more than once! And being in the desperate and lonely place helped me come up with a mantra that helped me get through those sad moments:
I was loved. I am loved. I will be loved.
Here’s how and why it was so helpful to remember these words in my single season.
I was Loved
The Scriptures tell us that God our father Loved us first and before any other wound was imparted on us from others:
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
When I felt like human love or love from men was lacking I reminded myself that I had been loved, called, and chosen before I had been anything else in this world.
I am Loved:
I am loved by God and so are you. He made us so he could love us. Pretty cool, huh? Loved is who we are and love is what he does. This is one of my all-time favorite scriptures and one I still read all the time when I am doubting who God is and what I mean to him:
Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, Isaiah 43:4
You are precious. You are honored. You are loved. Sit in that truth every day and wait to see how your life changes!
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I will be loved.
Just because you aren’t in a loving relationship now doesn’t mean you never will be.
Read that again. And maybe say it out loud:
Just because you aren’t in a loving relationship now doesn’t mean you never will be.
By now y’all know this verse changed my life:
For everything there is a season, A time for every activity under heaven. Ecc: 3:1
Living in this truth helped me to know the loneliness of my season was temporary. It helped me to stop thinking that my present reality was my set reality. And it helped me to look forward to what God had in store for my life instead of mourning a future I was desperate to have.
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These three truths above were life-changing ones for me to accept and I know that they can impact your life too!
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