Email Forwards
Ah...email forwards. The funny jokes, the crazy pictures you know are photo-shopped, and the ones that promise that your life will be awful unless you forward it to 20 more people in the next 5 minutes. I am a recipient of these daily. And I don't really mind these forwards, I'll read them for a moment's entertainment, but what I mind is having to scroll through the people before who have forwarded it. You know, where there's so many names and email addresses that you wonder if there is actually a point where you'll get to the information in the email. C'mon people, how hard is it to delete?! So, I got this forward the other day and I'm scrolling...and scrolling...and scrolling, and somewhere in the middle I come upon a quote that someone must put on the bottom of every email they send that said:
A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man has to seek Him first to find her.
And, in the amazing way that God does things, a few days later a friend of mine mentions that she heard this awesome quote and it really stuck with her...and of course it's the same one that had been sticking with me. She (also named Emily) commented that it really got her thinking about identity and where she finds hers. How cool is it that God is trying to teach His Emilys at the same time about hiding our hearts in Him? Even though she is 18, single, and still in high school and I'm in my twenties and newly married, we still have the same lesson to learn. And I think it's a lesson God will have to continue to teach me as the years go on.
God knows our hearts, He made our hearts, and He knows how fragile and tender and easily broken and hurt mine is...and that so often I try to hide it in my husband. I find so much of who I am in who I am married to, not in Who has given me life. My heart, who I am, my hopes, my desires, my hurts, should be hidden in Christ and not any other human being. Why? Because He's the only one big enough to handle all of it, and He's truly the only safe place for it.
I was talking to my husband about this, how I struggle with looking to him and not to God, and that quite honestly I find probably 75% of my identity in him. Immediately a look of panic came across his face, and I could see what he was thinking in his eyes, "I'm gonna let her down." And I realized that by doing that I am setting my husband up to fail. How completely unfair is that? It's so easy to do, because he's there, he's this physical person I can talk to and lean on and embrace, and he is so wonderful and sweet and caring. But as amazing as my husband is, GOD IS SO MUCH MORE! And by placing my heart in his hands and not in God's, he will eventually let me down. Not on purpose, not because he wants to, but because he is only human.
God is ready and waiting for me to let Him define me, to find my identity in Him, to hide my heart in Him. In fact, He's made me so that I will only find complete satisfaction when I do so.
And when my heart is hidden in Him, my husband knows exactly where to find it.
Emily
A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man has to seek Him first to find her.
And, in the amazing way that God does things, a few days later a friend of mine mentions that she heard this awesome quote and it really stuck with her...and of course it's the same one that had been sticking with me. She (also named Emily) commented that it really got her thinking about identity and where she finds hers. How cool is it that God is trying to teach His Emilys at the same time about hiding our hearts in Him? Even though she is 18, single, and still in high school and I'm in my twenties and newly married, we still have the same lesson to learn. And I think it's a lesson God will have to continue to teach me as the years go on.
God knows our hearts, He made our hearts, and He knows how fragile and tender and easily broken and hurt mine is...and that so often I try to hide it in my husband. I find so much of who I am in who I am married to, not in Who has given me life. My heart, who I am, my hopes, my desires, my hurts, should be hidden in Christ and not any other human being. Why? Because He's the only one big enough to handle all of it, and He's truly the only safe place for it.
I was talking to my husband about this, how I struggle with looking to him and not to God, and that quite honestly I find probably 75% of my identity in him. Immediately a look of panic came across his face, and I could see what he was thinking in his eyes, "I'm gonna let her down." And I realized that by doing that I am setting my husband up to fail. How completely unfair is that? It's so easy to do, because he's there, he's this physical person I can talk to and lean on and embrace, and he is so wonderful and sweet and caring. But as amazing as my husband is, GOD IS SO MUCH MORE! And by placing my heart in his hands and not in God's, he will eventually let me down. Not on purpose, not because he wants to, but because he is only human.
God is ready and waiting for me to let Him define me, to find my identity in Him, to hide my heart in Him. In fact, He's made me so that I will only find complete satisfaction when I do so.
And when my heart is hidden in Him, my husband knows exactly where to find it.
Emily
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