Prince Charming

Fairy tales and Disney movies are "The Notebook" for young girls. We hear so much about finding a Prince Charming so that our lives will be complete. I'm not a feminist by any means, and that's not where this is headed....but, we learn to seek for love from a male from such an early age. If a man loves you that's when you feel beautiful, confident, and intelligent. Something is wrong with growing up this way.

We seek after love more than we do wisdom. A single gal is always told "the right one is out there," "don't give up," and other cliches. It doesn't matter what else she has in her life, without a man- everyone will still pity her. Why is it so important to a girl to have a man in her life? Someone to crush on? Someone to daydream about? Why are so many girls boy crazy? We are seeking for something that we don't have in our lives and believe the false testimony of the world when it tells us we can only get it from a boyfriend/husband. 

What do we seek for in a man? Someone who will love us at our weakest, who can make us smile, who would choose us over himself, who can provide for us, who will be there for us, who won't disappoint us, who will love our family and our friends, who will make us feel beautiful.... 

Well the good news is that Christ was sent to be all those things for us. The bad news is that the church doesn't present Him that way, and girls still go seeking for a man that can never live up to the love that Christ longs to envelope her in. 

Just because we can't physically see Him, doesn't mean we can't love Him. We can have a real intimacy with Christ, share with Him the deepest parts of thoughts and fears just like we do with a boyfriend. So why don't we? 

Everything we want from love: honesty, selflessness, strength, hope, patience, perseverance, passion, never ending ...that's exactly how Christ loves us. He gives of Himself completely...but we push that aside not realizing it's everything we want. 

A man loves you so much that he sacrificed Himself for you...if you saw the drama unfolding in a movie theatre you would long for that kind of love...it happened in real life..and it happened for you. The Prince Charming that you've been waiting for is waiting for you.