Fill My Cup Lord

I recently reread a blog post I had shared on Facebook quite a while ago, and it’s called “The Next Guy You Should Date” and it stirred up some thoughts in me that I wanted to share. That blog was spot on, and I couldn’t have said it better myself. Girls shouldn’t be searching for the perfect guy or perfect relationship (guys, this goes for you too). Each one of us should be striving to better our relationship with Christ. He should be at the center of all that we do, day in and day out.

Being in a relationship won’t fulfill you

Every girl I know longs to be in a relationship and I know that feeling. It’s what I always wanted too. But it isn’t going to make everything right suddenly. Relationships are portrayed that way in the movies, but THAT IS NOT REAL. I had to learn and am still learning that I need to be happy in the situation I am in. Single, in a relationship, in marriage someday (Lord willing!) I need to learn that just me and God is enough. Always, no matter what. My fulfillment and my contentment are in Christ, not in my boyfriend. I have been reading some books this past year, and although reading Christian “relationship” books is good – in a relationship or not – they can’t substitute for reading the Bible. Everything I need to know for life is in one place, whether I am searching for contentment as a single person, or trying to learn what a Godly relationship looks like. A couple of my suggestions are Let Me Be a Woman by Elizabeth Elliot (a favorite of mine) Love That Lasts by Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke, and Emotional Purity by Heather Paulsen.

They all have the same thing at their core; Christ

I want to suggest these books because they have been helpful to me; single and in a relationship. They all have the same thing at their core; Christ. Christ is the person who should be at the core of my life, and if I’m honest, most of the time He isn’t. It’s something that I strive for daily but something I have yet to achieve, and I’m pretty sure I won’t ever really achieve it. (Check out 1 John for some solid teaching on love and Christ as the center of your life.)

I wish I could say that my track record is perfect and that my road to finding love has been easy and simple, but that is not the truth. When I was younger, I consistently made the wrong decisions when it came to guys. I spent a long time trying to find my own way instead of waiting for God to show me His will. Now, at 19, I am in my first real relationship. This relationship is 100% the Lord’s doing. Neither Jared nor I saw this coming, but looking back on those first few months we can see how the Lord worked to bring us together. This relationship is different because God put it together, in every way possible it was all Him.

The point of my babbling is this: God has an incredible plan for each one of us and being patient is brutal. Trusting the Lord to be enough is scary and we struggle to do that. Being content with nothing but God is hard and worth it.

That brings me back to the title of this blog and the chorus of the song I took it from.

Fill my cup, Lord, I lift it up, Lord Come and quench this thirsting in my soul Bread from Heaven, feed me ’til I want no more Fill my cup, fill it up and make me whole

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