Chapter 6 - He's Just that Into You!!!

What a journey this has been!! It has brought me so much joy to spend this time writing about the things that are so close to my heart. I am a life that has been radically changed by the women and girls in the churches that I have been raised in and served at. It is my greatest prayer and desire to pay it forward. Life is too short to focus on the things that do not matter.

I want to spend our last little bit of time together reminding you of God’s loving pursuit of you. We all have a huge hole inside of us that we try to fill with random things. The problem is that God can only fill it. Which is only a problem when you try to fill it with other things. He has created us with a gap that only He can fill. This is why popularity, varsity teams, boyfriends, starring roles, best friends, family, money, cute clothes, or etc. are going to leave us disappointed.

Who you are was carefully knit together before the world knew you. God was not messing around when he made you. You are nothing short of a miracle that He delights in. It doesn’t matter where you have been or what you have done, he has arms outstretched for you. He wants to bring love into your life like you have never experienced before! I don’t know if you have ever heard of the parable of “The Prodigal Son” in the book of Luke in the Bible. There is a son who decides to take all of his inheritance and go out and live up life. He spends all his money and finds himself at a place of complete discontentment. Long story short, he goes home to find his father waiting for him with a nice robe and a huge party. God is just like that with us. He is not looking at us shaking his head hoping for the worse. He is looking at us with anticipation and love for the day we will return to his arms. God pursues us like we girls long for a guy to pursue us, but for some reason He is not enough. It is sad, but true. He comes to us with His love to offer and we look him in the eye and tell him that He is not good enough. You may not know that you are doing that, but every time we try to fill that gap with anything other than Him, that is exactly what we are doing. We are telling him, “Thanks, but no thanks”.

Think about a crush that you have had and how much you thought about him, how much you waited by the phone for him to call, how much you couldn’t think about anything else but him…Multiply that by lets just say, for kicks and giggles, 1,000- you are not even close to how in love Jesus is with you! He doesn’t want to hurt you, He won't cheat on you, He won't hit you, He won't take advantage of you, He won't break your heart, He won't make fun of you, He won't gossip about you, He won't tell his friends things that aren’t true about you, and He will NEVER leave you. Who doesn’t want Him to be their first love? Everyone, no matter who it is, they are going to let you down at some point. No one is perfect, so at some point they will all hurt you and let you down. This cannot be said about your creator!!

There is a book that was written awhile back and now a movie coming out in a couple weeks that is called, “He’s just not into you”. If you didn’t guess it already, the title of my book is a spin off of that title. Nothing hurts more than a broken heart. I would rather have every bone in my body broken than a broken heart. I hate seeing girls with a hurting heart that was broken by a guy that they trusted. Almost every time it was broken by a guy who said one thing but then his actions said another. They said what they needed to say to get what they wanted to get. But the fact of the matter is that he’s just not that into you. The good news is that God is more than you could ever ask or imagine for your life and He is just that into you!