My latest Facebook note

I write notes on Facebook and they don't often make it to my blog - this one I'm going to put on here though.

><>< I'm Still Waiting For You To Be The One I'm Waiting For ><><

I have to admit, I love the band Relient K. One of their songs, The One I’m Waiting For, has really made me think. I’ve used the phrase “I’m still waiting for You to be the one I’m waiting for” in my status messages and had people ask me what it meant. So I am going to attempt to answer (at least what it means to me).

We talk a lot about waiting for the right guy or girl to come along. Sometimes we use it as an explanation (“I’ve never dated because I’m waiting for the right one to come along”) or we whine about it (“How much longer to do I have to wait for it? I wish I had a boy/girlfriend now!”). I think we all feel a longing for that special relationship. But where does that longing come from? God knew from the very beginning that we as humans need someone, when he saw that it was “not good for the man (Adam) to be alone” and created Eve. But the love that we can feel for someone on this earth is just a poor reflection, a cheap imitation of the love God has for us. The closeness we long for with another human being comes from the way we were created. God wants us to know that we are not complete without Him, and He gave us a desire to seek Him out. We try to fulfill that desire with other people or material possessions and not with God.

A very wise older Christian friend once said to me, “I have this longing inside me for a special relationship with a guy. But then I realized that if God, who loves me more than I can ever imagine and is truly the best thing that ever happened to me, can't fulfill that desire why do I think another person can? Only once I am content in God will I be able to be content in someone else.” That really hit home to me, and I try to live by those words. Sometimes I end up kicking myself because I spend waaaay more time thinking about earthly relationships than I do thinking about my relationship with God. I’m still waiting for myself to change enough that it is a desire for a deep relationship with God that I long for more than anything. That’s why I often have to confess, “Lord, I’m still waiting for You to be the one I’m waiting for.”

I’m not saying that God doesn’t want us to have a relationship with that special guy/girl. On the contrary, God created us with that desire and that is why a relationship like that is so amazing. I’m just saying that when both people in the relationship are focused on God as well as each other, that is when it is in God’s will and that makes it even more amazing.
(Ok, like I would know, right? These are just my thoughts right now.)

If we aren't satisfied with the Creator, why do we expect to be satisfied with the created thing?