Do they meet your every need? Can they?

By Spiritually Single

"One day, I shared with my unmarried friend that when I was single I thought marriage was all about finding the right partner. I thought if you find “the one,” you’d be happy, secure, and fulfilled.
I do think it’s good to have a list of standards that you look for in a spouse. However, it can never be with the expectation that if you find that special someone, he’ll right all your wrongs and fill up all your insecurities. The problem with this thinking is the pressure it will eventually put on your spouse.
To expect another person to make you feel happy, secure, and fulfilled will leave you disappointed at best and disillusioned at worst. Even a great husband makes a very poor God.
Only God can settle those deep heart-needs. A man can never do this. If a husband could meet every need his wife had (and vice versa), we’d have no need for God. Therefore, instead of just focusing on finding the right partner, let God work on your heart to help you become the right partner.” - Lysa TerKeurst


This is EXACTLY what God has been teaching me the past 7 months.  In the past I have put so much pressure on the man in my life to make me happy, feel worthy, feel beautiful and they failed everytime.  They  told me that,"No matter what I do, its never good enough".  They were right....I wasn't putting that trust in God like I should have, I was expecting them to fulfill those desires.  God is the one who can only fulfill certain things for us!  They tried, am I'm thankful they put the effort in, but it was all me!  I know now and I know to keep it applied to my life and to always put God first since God has taught me.

I look around and see so many people put so much dependency on their mate and I wish they put that much effort in God.  It took me a long time to get where I'm at and I had to lose a great man to see, but I can honestly say that I wouldn't trade this season in my life.  No one likes to go through the storm, but when you go through it head first and come out on the other side, your smarter and a better person that can God use you for.  

So remember to not depend on man or even things in this life to make you happy.  Our God is a jealous God and He can and possibly remove that person or that thing that you put before Him.  Find your worth in Christ and Christ alone!  He loves like no one on this earth could ever love and your worth to Him is more worthy than to any person on this earth!