I'm on a boat

With 22 junior high and high schoolers. To see the pics and updates, follow my twitter account on the tab above. We had a great time of worship and heard a powerful message from Justin Knowles. I led the high schoolers on top of the 40ft. boat with the junior highers down stairs. We talked a boatload about idolatry and the things we put before God. So of course the main topic was about...girls. We all did it in high school, where boy likes girl, girl doesn't like boy, so boy is destroyed, his life is over, he cannot continue without her love, she is everything. He recites poems to her picture at night hoping they will be together again. You didnt do that? Just me then. Then boy wakes up at 35 laughing at the way he used to think, and wishes he would have spent time on God and hobbies while in high school because statistically he was probably not gonna marry the girl he was oh so convinced about at 16.

Personally I don't believe in soul mates.it's not realistic and it's not biblical. I'm not saying God can't Have someone he knows you will be good with, but could there possibly be many you might be good with? But what about "the one". I think it's a load of crap. If my parents didn't meet at church 30 years ago they probably would have met someone else at a different place and got married and ended up all dandy too. But truth is we get so caught up with "the one" at a young age, and to be honest, well into our adulthood. I heard a friend of mine say the other day that she doesn't know if the one she is dating is "the one".

I don't believe in "the one", but I do believe in "the one thing". We get so caught up about "the one" that we miss out on "the one thing" God is trying to show us, teach us, take from us, or give to us. What if he wants you to go on that mission trip for 6 months? What if he wants you to put that time in to school? What if He wants you to teach in Japan? Or coach a football team? Maybe there is so much more that he has for us that we would be able to see if we stopped our pursuit of "the one" and focused on "the one thing". Life is so much more than getting married and the sex you get to have that young Christians are in such a rush to have.

Chill, He is good. He knows what you want, and will give you what you need whether it is a spouse, a job, or a money for a new hipster haircut. Be at peace knowing that he wants to give you beautiful things, and see that beautiful things consist of so much more than the boyfriend or girlfriend we make a list of impossible requirements for. What's "the one thing he wants you to see in this very moment?