Happily ever after...

Where is my Happily ever after?

I recently started reading again. I am a book lover, a hopeless romantic, a person who falls in love with a great story, with an even better happily ever after...

Well, the book I picked up (and highly recommend for single ladies), is called The Chase: Trusting God with Your Happily Ever After. Within reading the first chapter, I knew I didn't stumble upon this book by accident, and well...after that, I hid from it...Avoided reading it, until tonight. Until tonight because I felt alone and I wanted that certain someone to talk to, to laugh with, just to be around. Then I remember the post my mother put on my Facebook, nothing spectacular, but simple, all it was was the picture at the beginning of this post. A picture that states: " just because something isn't happening for you right now, doesn't mean that it will never happen."

When I first read that post, I just brushed it off.. then I actually started thinking about how much I actually thought about my happily ever after. And I'm sure that I'm not the only single lady that thinks of this. That is that hopeless romantic. 

But after realizing that I thought about that so frequently, I decided to focus my thoughts else where...digging into the Word, and reading the book that I was talking about earlier.

See, the book, at the end of the first chapter asks a question...Who  or what are you chasing? is it God?  and I wish I could say, I answered God as soon as I read that question, but I didn't... I was too busy chasing MY happily ever after. MY plan for MY life. I was chasing MY goal on graduating by June (which I still believe will happen), but I was also chasing MY "perfect" guy (or the potential guys that could be him), I was chasing MY perfect life. And my life was crumbling at the seems...But no one really knew that. except for myself...  I was being a hearer of the Word and not a doer (James 1:22). I wasn't giving God my 110%, my ALL that he deserves. During that time I made mistakes, but looking back now, knowing I shouldn't have acted in the ways that I did, only makes me want to cry out to God more. Only makes me want to CHASE him and only him. Only makes me want to reach out to those that are walking in the shoes that I have been in, any of the shoes I have been in (which are more than I care to have been in). Only makes me want to help anyone and everyone in need. Only makes me want to show everyone the love of Christ. Only makes me want to WANT Christ more than anything and everything in my life. Because He has been chasing me since day 1. since September 26, 1991...and even before!  The first chapter of the book ends with this..." Keep chasing after Him, and you'll see..." I will see that God's plans for me are way more than I could ever imagine. I just have to trust him. Psalms 3:5-6..

I will end with this....

What are you chasing? Is it God? or is it YOUR happily ever after instead of his?

Chase him and you won't regret it. Chase him and be ready to be amazed. Chase him and never be disappointed. Chase him and you'll find a LOVE like never before. Chase him and get the best ever, HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

Blessings.

5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,

“Never will I leave you;

    never will I forsake you.”   

Hebrew:13:5