I found HIM.
After years of searching for a strong and mighty man to be
my prince charming, I have officially found him.
He is captivated and fascinated by me. He romances me with flowers.
He goes on walks with me any time I want. He spoils me with really nice gifts.
He provides for me. He listens to me. He writes me love letters. He makes me laugh.
He stands up for me. He calls me beautiful every single day. He has never once been rude to me, hurt me, or made me feel bad about
myself. Every time I talk to him I feel encouraged. He writes me love songs. He
cares about my friends and family even more than I do. His strength, dignity,
and honor makes me feel like a princess. He makes me want to forget about all
the issues on my mind and draw away to an intimate place with him. (Don't I sound like I am bragging?)
He is absolutely perfect.
Am I blinded by love? Or does such a perfect prince actually
exist?
I’ve always wanted to find him. After not-so-few disappointing relationships,
I gave up. In my mind I settled for a fate of 27 cats and the forever alone
club. Who needs guys? They are all jerks anyway, right?
Little did I know that he was pursuing me the entire time.
While I was giving away my mind, body, and heart to other guys, he was
heartbroken. He wanted me for himself. He knew that only he had what I desired
and craved. He wanted to romance me and love me forever.
He fought for me. He didn’t let me be kept in relationships
that weren’t healthy. He pursued me. He romanced me and I rejected him. I told
him that he isn’t enough for me. His promises seemed too good to be true.
He didn’t give up. For years he pursued me. It was a long
process, but with every passing day, he began to win my love and my affections.
Slowly, I began to trust him more. I began to actually read his love letters
and listen to his songs. I began to draw away to a quiet place with him.The more I got to know him, the less I cared about
other stuff. The more I saw him being faithful over and over again, the smaller my
fears became.
One day, I finally gave him my yes. But I wasn’t
yet ready to be his and only his. There were other lovers in my life. Was I cheating on him? I continued to pursue the relationships that I had before I
said yes to him. I expected him to break it off with me, but for some crazy
reason he loved me so much that he continued to fight for me. Slowly but
surely, he fought the other lovers, and kicked them out of my life. I wanted to love him alone but I wasn't able to say no to the others. He
continued to assure me every day that he would help me get through this. He wasn’t
going to quit. I was way too precious to him.
One by one, with his help, I made decisions to end it with
the other lovers in my life.
He is my all.
I want to spend the rest of my life getting to
know him better. I want to figure him out even more. I want to get to know his
personality, his likes and dislikes. He is the greatest treasure I have ever
discovered, (or rather, been discovered by.)
I am enthralled by my prince charming. I wouldn’t trade him
for anything.
Who is he?
Does such perfection exist? Is such a romance possible? Was this
desire of mine actually possible to be fulfilled?
Can you take a guess on who it is?
My true prince is Jesus Christ. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
“Many of us think we know Jesus Christ. We mention him often
in conversation, visit him at church once or twice a week, read our Bibles
periodically so we can understand him better, and maybe even declare that he is
our number one priority in life. But just as there is a marked distinction
between memorizing the definition of a rose in Webster’s dictionary and
actually holding one in your hand, there is a huge difference between saying
you know Jesus Christ and actually experiencing him as your true prince, your
hero, and the one you give up everything just to be with.
So many of us, though
we claim to know Jesus Christ, are still longing for our deepest desires to be
filled by someone else. We frantically seek the man of our dreams, giving
ourselves completely to one relationship after the next, hoping that when we
finally find the right guy our romantic fantasies will become a reality.
Most of us don’t realize that Jesus Christ is not a flimsy,
flannel-board figure from a Sunday-school lesson; that he is not a stern
dictator looking down on us from heaven to make sure we obey his rules; that he
is not a distant being who is too busy running the world to care about the
details of our day-to-day lives; and that he is so much more than someone we
say we believe in to keep ourselves out of hell when we die.
He is the lover of our souls. Our true Prince. The one we
have been longing for, searching for, and dreaming of since childhood; the one
who will love us the way nobody else can love us; the one who will cherish us
forever; the one who will transform us from hopeless girls in rags into
beautiful, confident, radiant princesses. He is the one who makes us ready for
true, lasting human love. And he is the one who meets our deepest
needs when human love falls short.
No matter how many times our dreams have been shattered, or
how many times our hearts have been trampled, or how far we have strayed from
him, our prince is standing outside our dungeon windows, patiently waiting for
us to hear his voice and invite him to rescue us from the bleakness of a life
lived without him.
This kind of a fairytale romance between a young woman and
her true prince does not come without sacrifice. It does not come without pain.
But it is the most priceless gift we will ever be offered. And it is the most
beautiful and fulfilling existence we could ever imagine.” –Leslie Ludy, “Authentic
Beauty”
Are you willing to take his hand and let him become your
prince? Do you want this kind of romance?
I promise he has been pursuing you the same way he has been pursuing me. He wants to have the same type of relationship with you too.
Is it weird for you to think of Jesus as a Prince and the
lover of your soul? I know it sure was for me.
But I promise you from personal experience that if you take
his hand, ask him to reveal himself to you, and spend time getting to know him,
you will not be disappointed.
Do I still desire to have an actual boyfriend, fiance, and husband? Of course! But that doesn't defeat the fact that Jesus is going to be my number one priority and the center of my universe, even during that relationship. If I do get married in the future, I want my husband to encourage and support my relationship with Jesus. I want him to push me deeper into intimacy with Jesus.The only way I will truly be able to love, respect and have true intimacy with my future husband is if I can fully devote myself to Jesus first. If I search for my prince first, all the other things will be added to me. I want my future marriage to be centered around the both of us pursuing Jesus. I'm trusting my prince to provide this for me too. Jesus will prepare a man for me who will love me the way he loves me, and treat me the way God says I deserve to be treated. (even if I don't feel worthy of it). He will symbolically walk me down the aisle. He is the daddy who takes his girl out on daddy dates and teaches her the first things she knows about how a guy should treat her and then gives her to a man who will treat her like a treasure. My Prince is also my Father.
(On a side note..If you are a guy reading this, I just want to say that I believe in you. Although culture often sells you short, I want to say that I believe in you as a chivelrous, mighty warrior of God, made in Christs image. You are a gentleman. You treat a lady with respect. I want to break off those words spoken over you that all men are pigs and only think about one thing. That doesn't have to be true for you. You were made for more than that with the power of Christ. You protect and honor a girls purity and innocence rather than destroying it. I believe that through Christ you can love a woman the way Christ loves his church. You can be the one to show your girl how passionate Jesus truly loves his bride. Lead her into a deeper relationship with her prince. Be the man you were made to be.)
I am praying for you. I pray courage and boldness over you
to explore this idea. It might not be easy, but it is so worth it.
-Viktoriyous
If this blog has been any help to you, please share it
with somebody who you think would benefit. The purpose of my life is to
introduce people to this wonderful price, and I would love your help in doing
that!
P.S.
(Is this Biblical? Through my study, I have found that is sure is! All throughout the Bible and
especially the book of Revelations, one of the ways Jesus is presented as is a
bridegroom and the Church of Christ and believers as his bride. This idea isn’t
meant to be twisted into a carnal idea of a lover. It is all about a spiritual
communion. When I ignored the Bridegroom
attribute of Jesus, I missed out on the fullness of what it meant to have real
intimacy with him. I’d
encourage you to NOT take my word for it. Study it yourself! Christ
as a bridegroom? Christ as a prince? See what the Bible has to say! I did!)
P.P.S.
Ive been reading the book “Authentic Beauty” by Leslie Ludy.
I cant even begin to describe how much this book has enriched my life and has
opened my eyes to what Jesus can be for me. This book is a treasure. Would you
like to read it too?
