Good Morning Everyone!
I hope you are all having a good week! As you know, I have been pretty busy at work. I often forget how the first few weeks of starting back are hectic. I wanted to write a blog post today about your single season being a gift from God. Yesterday, I began studying Rebekah's life as a single woman and what I found out is encouraging for me and hopefully for you! If you would like to find out some key points about Rebekah's life, read on to find out more! I hope you have your cup of coffee or tea with you! Let's begin!
So in Rebekah's story, we see that she has a servant's heart which was one of things that Abraham's servant was looking for while finding a wife for Isaac. The servant prayed, Lord, if this is the girl for Isaac, let her bring me a cup of water. Well she not only brought him a cup of water, but water for his ten camels. She was a young woman of purity, physically and mentally. She also cared for her family and helped out at home. She was energetic, hard worker and it showed. The camels that he brought had been on a long journey so she was running back and forth to the well getting water for the camels. When she had finally finished watering the camels, the servant asked her who she belonged to. She told him who she was living with and she offered him a place to stay. Wow, God was answering this servant's prayer right and left! You can read the story in Genesis chapter 24.
So let's focus in on the key points in Rebekah's life. She was pure, she stayed busy, she showed hospitality to the servant and his camels. She also had the time to devote her time to God. In 1 Cor. 7:7-8, Paul says, "I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried as I do." Now when I used to read this scripture a few years ago, I didn't know that I was misinterpreting it. I thought that it was good for a woman to stay single because maybe God wanted me to be single for the rest of my life. I had missed a key word in this verse and that word is gift. The Lord has been teaching me about the different seasons that we go through in our walk and one of the seasons that I have been in for a long time has been my single season. I used to look at it as a bad thing or I would think something is wrong with me. I learned yesterday that being single is a gift from God. We all have been giving different gifts from the Lord such as being single for a season or being married or you may be raising a family.
God showed me to keep living my life and serve Him with all my heart as a single because there is coming a day when this will all change. Now, in my heart I do long for marriage, but I want to make sure that it's the guy that God has chosen for me. God wants us to see our singleness as gift from Him to serve Him. We do not have too many responsibilities right now and we can take advantage of the time He has given us. A married woman has a husband that she has to devote her attention to and if she has children, she has to devote attention to them as well. Now does this mean, she doesn't have or make time for God? No, she just has more responsibilities than a single person. So how can we devote more time to God? That's a great question! I can give you my schedule as an example. I work 5 days a week with 20 four year old children from 7:30 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon. I wake up at 5:00 in the morning to read my Bible and pray. This prepares my heart for the day because you never know what you will face on the job as soon as you walk in. My lunch is from 1:00 to 1:30 in the afternoon and I have been taking a book with me to study and enjoy some quiet time with the Lord.
Friends, I cannot tell you how much I enjoy my quiet times with the Lord, I do not take them for granted whatsoever! When you have been listening to crying and whining all day long from little ones who do not want to clean up or take a nap, trust me, you will enjoy some quiet too! When I get home, the first thing that I do is take a shower. I feel so much better after taking a shower after a long day. Then I will take care of the necessary things such as picking out an outfit for the next day and packing my lunch. Also taking care of the dog and whoever else needs help with something. Once I finish all the necessary things, I will make a cup of tea and come to my room and put on some worship music. This helps me relax and let go of the things that I do not need in my heart. I will pull out my Bible or the book that I am currently reading and begin studying. I will also take time to pray and ask the Lord to get rid of anything that doesn't belong in my heart and spirit.
So friends, with that being said, I hope this encourages you to see your singleness as a gift and not a burden. I pray that you begin asking the Lord how you can use your time for serving Him. Maybe He wants you to study more of His word or communicate with Him more often or maybe help someone who needs an encouraging word. There are many ways we can use our single season to serve God. (I may write another post about the different ways we can serve God while being single.) May God bless you and keep you! Until next time!
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