I’ve often wondered silently about teaching our daughters and grand daughters to simply ‘wait in purity’ for God to lead them to the right man for marriage someday. That by waiting their joy will be so much greater. That somehow their waiting will fulfill their inner most desire which in reality needs to be filled by God Himself. I’m not sure that for some well intentioned and concerned parents this hasn’t become an easy fix to a much more difficult and possibly central goal of parents, to treasure God as their all in all. That their chaste purity somehow replaces what their heart truly seeks.
There is so much more in teaching our daughters to find true joy than to save their love, emotions and themselves for that one special man in marriage. We need to teach them to find their joy and fulfillment in God alone. In doing this, they will wait not for fulfilled joy but for the glory of the One who has already fulfilled their joy.
Fathers Day is here this week. Let us decide as Dads, to teach our girls that their greatest joy, as wonderful as he should be, is not their husbands but their joy can be found now in treasuring God.
Take the time to read this linked blog. It is said so well.
Awesome – the truth about something always points to The Truth about everything! Christ is our all in all.