First of all, I want to THANK THANK THANK you guys in all humbleness for reading my blog. I’ve been writing for almost one year and in this year I’ve experienced so many great things. It started with just simply crying my heart out on the Internet and I’ve seen that God uses it for His glory. My prayer from the beginning was that just someone, even if it’s only one person, would be blessed or be encouraged by it and I hope it did and will do! And even I, myself, am often surprised by the message and teaching I get from the writings because it’s not me who speaks, it’s Him. Through my experiences, He speaks, He acts and He shows. Thank you for your amazing feedback and support.. Until today I still can’t believe that people are visiting this blog daily from over the world. AMAZING! I love you guys.
Now back to something I wanted to share with you... so these last few days a pastor from Holland visited the church where I’m going. When I heard it from my auntie I was so thrilled because I would finally meet dutchies (org bule) again! Plus I got the honor to serve with these two amazing people.
Pastor Ap & Anita Verwaijen are from Breda and they visited Jakarta especially to give a seminar about Marriage. When I heard they were going to share about this topic I must say I wasn’t that interested at first. Marriage?? I’m not married so why should it be interested for me? But God knows His daughter. He knows that I love to encourage young people and especially girls to save their heart. Therefore I’m grateful I joined and witnessed this seminar. As a single woman I could analyze a lot of things during the teachings and capture what the message meant.
When you are single at the moment I’m sure you feel lonely at times. You see couples around you and you think “Why am I still single? Is there something wrong with me? Am I going to find the right person?” To be honest, this is absolutely normal. I bet every single person in this world has ever wondered about this. And it’s also normal to reflect on your own life for a moment because reflection leads to improvement. As a person we must improve ourselves daily and we should not depend on another human being. We must become sweeter, kinder, wiser, smarter, better every single day. We must learn from our past, our failures, our tears and trials. That’s what forms us and makes us gain more life experience. So be thankful for EVERYTHING. The good and the bad.
If you’re single at this moment, stop feeling sorry for yourself. You may think, oh my… I’m getting older and I feel pressured. My advice is: don’t be! Be patient, be strong, be still and trust that everything works for your good. Even if God doesn’t want you to meet your other half (I hope He will tho), He will satisfy your heart with other things. We have to fully depend on Him and He has to be enough for us. When we come to the stage where we’re ready, it will surely come. A relationship consists of two people but have to think further than that. When you decide to start a relationship with someone you also need to think: can we bless other people with this relationship? Can we bless other couples with this relationship? Can we be an example for the young people who are still single? Will this relationship eventually lead us to marriage, a beautiful thing God created for two people? And if you are not ready for this, if your base is still not strong and if you can’t be happy on your own than don’t be in a relationship. How can you make someone happy when you’re not happy when you’re alone? It sounds very logical but it’s so hard to apply in our lives. Most of the time we want to do what “feels” good. But Love if not a feeling. Love is a decision. Ofcourse you have to have feelings for one another but feelings come and go. A covenant is different, it applies forever. If you say: I love you and I choose you to be my partner then make it work! Let us be faithful and responsible people. Many couples give up so easily and it’s such a waste. A waste of your time, heart and a waste of so much more.
Let’s take a look at Jesus’ covenant for us. He said: I love you! I want to be your friend, your partner, your dad and that’s why I came to this earth to swap places with you…Even though we know this, we still fail Him many times, we hurt Him, but still He loves us and He takes us back every single time without conditions. This is the definition of a LOVE COVENANT. I really get emotional when I think about His love for us because only He can love this way… let’s take this example and apply it in every aspect of our life. Let’s LOVE like He loves, or at least try. Pray for your future partner and in the meanwhile, prepare yourself to be the BEST partner you can offer to someone else. Everything will be beautiful on His time. He prepared the very best for you!
Love, Yin
First of all, I want to THANK THANK THANK you guys in all humbleness for reading my blog. I’ve been writing for almost one year and in this year I’ve experienced so many great things. It started with just simply crying my heart out on the Internet and I’ve seen that God uses it for His glory. My prayer from the beginning was that just someone, even if it’s only one person, would be blessed or be encouraged by it and I hope it did and will do! And even I, myself, am often surprised by the message and teaching I get from the writings because it’s not me who speaks, it’s Him. Through my experiences, He speaks, He acts and He shows. Thank you for your amazing feedback and support.. Until today I still can’t believe that people are visiting this blog daily from over the world. AMAZING! I love you guys.
Now back to something I wanted to share with you... so these last few days a pastor from Holland visited the church where I’m going. When I heard it from my auntie I was so thrilled because I would finally meet dutchies (org bule) again! Plus I got the honor to serve with these two amazing people.
Pastor Ap & Anita Verwaijen are from Breda and they visited Jakarta especially to give a seminar about Marriage. When I heard they were going to share about this topic I must say I wasn’t that interested at first. Marriage?? I’m not married so why should it be interested for me? But God knows His daughter. He knows that I love to encourage young people and especially girls to save their heart. Therefore I’m grateful I joined and witnessed this seminar. As a single woman I could analyze a lot of things during the teachings and capture what the message meant.
When you are single at the moment I’m sure you feel lonely at times. You see couples around you and you think “Why am I still single? Is there something wrong with me? Am I going to find the right person?” To be honest, this is absolutely normal. I bet every single person in this world has ever wondered about this. And it’s also normal to reflect on your own life for a moment because reflection leads to improvement. As a person we must improve ourselves daily and we should not depend on another human being. We must become sweeter, kinder, wiser, smarter, better every single day. We must learn from our past, our failures, our tears and trials. That’s what forms us and makes us gain more life experience. So be thankful for EVERYTHING. The good and the bad.
If you’re single at this moment, stop feeling sorry for yourself. You may think, oh my… I’m getting older and I feel pressured. My advice is: don’t be! Be patient, be strong, be still and trust that everything works for your good. Even if God doesn’t want you to meet your other half (I hope He will tho), He will satisfy your heart with other things. We have to fully depend on Him and He has to be enough for us. When we come to the stage where we’re ready, it will surely come. A relationship consists of two people but have to think further than that. When you decide to start a relationship with someone you also need to think: can we bless other people with this relationship? Can we bless other couples with this relationship? Can we be an example for the young people who are still single? Will this relationship eventually lead us to marriage, a beautiful thing God created for two people? And if you are not ready for this, if your base is still not strong and if you can’t be happy on your own than don’t be in a relationship. How can you make someone happy when you’re not happy when you’re alone? It sounds very logical but it’s so hard to apply in our lives. Most of the time we want to do what “feels” good. But Love if not a feeling. Love is a decision. Ofcourse you have to have feelings for one another but feelings come and go. A covenant is different, it applies forever. If you say: I love you and I choose you to be my partner then make it work! Let us be faithful and responsible people. Many couples give up so easily and it’s such a waste. A waste of your time, heart and a waste of so much more.
Let’s take a look at Jesus’ covenant for us. He said: I love you! I want to be your friend, your partner, your dad and that’s why I came to this earth to swap places with you…Even though we know this, we still fail Him many times, we hurt Him, but still He loves us and He takes us back every single time without conditions. This is the definition of a LOVE COVENANT. I really get emotional when I think about His love for us because only He can love this way… let’s take this example and apply it in every aspect of our life. Let’s LOVE like He loves, or at least try. Pray for your future partner and in the meanwhile, prepare yourself to be the BEST partner you can offer to someone else. Everything will be beautiful on His time. He prepared the very best for you!
Love, Yin
