This morning, as I was getting ready for work, I was listening to Michael Bublé. That is a normal occurrence for me – at least listening to some sort of lovey-dovey, romantic music. Whether I am single or dating someone, I always enjoy it because…well…I am a girl! 😉 Anyways, I had been listening to it and then changed it to country. After each song, I realized a little more how wrong their view of love was.

(How to say this without sounding ridiculous and completely cynical…hm…??) Well, I realized how lost our world is. They (including myself sometimes) are all so focused on the wrong things. They are focused on how a person – one very human, flawed person –  can satisfy their every need. Man, does that not work, or what?!

Been there, done that. Doesn’t work, doesn’t satisfy.

It has been an interesting journey the last month or so. I was (and am still) THAT person. I put all my eggs in one basket and that was very foolish of me. Hindsight is 20/20.

I placed that one, human person as the most important thing in my life…with all the expectations you should place on no one but the Lord. It was a set up for failure.

And that is what happened. It failed. I set up for myself my own personal idol and then turned around and claimed that the Lord is number one in my life. As much as you try to fight it, the Lord will strip you of those things. He will make sure that you put him first. He will make sure that you are broken in every way possible so that nothing but him is glorified.

If there is one lesson I could share with every girl, it is that MAN FAILS…they are not Jesus (they are not perfect or God). They can NEVER take Jesus’ place in your life. They can never, ever fill the all-satisfying hole that only the Lord can fill. They can’t do it. Even if they try with all their might. They could do everything you ever ask of them, but who wants to be “loved” by demand (I sure don’t; I want to be desired and wanted)!!!

I was listening to Brooke Fraser on my way home from my activities last night and she has a really good song called C.S. Lewis Song. Basically, it is a song that is filled with quotes and ideas that C.S. Lewis thought through in some of his writings. One of the lines that kept getting me over and over was this:

“If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy,
I can only conclude that I was not made for here
If the flesh that I fight is at best only light and momentary,
then of course I’ll feel nude when to where I’m destined I’m compared”

 So true. my desires are not satisfied by anything here on this earth. There are some days when I want nothing to do with this earth and my heart craves to be in heaven worshiping at the feet of Jesus. Unfortunately that time is going to have to wait, but for now I will conclude with the bridge to the song:

For we, we are not long here
Our time is but a breath, so we better breathe it
And I, I was made to live, I was made to love, I was made to know you
Hope is coming for me
Hope, He’s coming

To Be Continued… =)