Passion is a Battleground

Passion is a battleground. Whether you're a girl or a guy, it's not easy. Understandably, I know what a girl struggles with MUCH more fully than what a guy battles, I don't claim to have any understanding of the male gender, and I doubt I ever will! Anyway, if I take a look around at all the girls my age, it's easy to see why we're all fighting to 'get the guy'. I swear, it seems like everyone I know has an engagement ring these days or has already said the "i do's". Thus creating the complex that if I am alone and not serious by the time I'm 20 and not married to 'mr. right' by graduation, I am destined to be a spinster. I will be nothing more than the old cat lady. Seriously! In the end, girls are pulling out claws, playing our little girl games, just so that we can get that 'one in a million catch' and keep him for ourselves. In a way though, I completely understand. A good guy is hard to come by these days, and the list of what he needs and does NOT need to be seem to get increasingly longer. So, when such Prince Charming is found, it would seem obvious to make sure he is all yours. But... then you take a step back and realize that they are actually people, not the paper-doll cut out we can just dress in a tux and insert into our imaginary happily ever after. Sure, they look pretty and they would look AMAZING on our little alters of doom we have created, but we start to see these flaws... and then some OTHER 'mr. right' comes along, and HEAVEN help me if so and so thinks she deserves him and off we go again. Eventually we're just a dog, chasing our tails and getting dizzy.

It's pretty obvious to see where this goes very, very wrong. But, how do we fix this? How to we stop the spinning, how do we jump off this merry-go-round? Well, the sad fact is that we won't ever make it go away. There will always be emotions. Welcome to being a girl. It's what we do with these emotions that will make or break us. If we want to keep following this battleground image:
as a soldier in this battle, we can do one of two things
1. Fire off our bazookas of feelings in every which way hoping to hit a target
-or-
2. Know what bazookas will go where, line them up as carefully as possible, consult the manual, ask your commanding officer and fire them off when we know that's where we're suppose to fire them.

If you put your faith in Christ, all else will fall into place. I can't gaurentee that he'll let you have that oh so cute guy in your Spanish class and I can't even tell you that He has plans for every one of us to get married and have those 2.5 kids. But, I can promise He won't steer you in the wrong direction. I have a friend who recently asked why God had to be stubborn and hard to deal with. This was my reply:
Every time we stumble and fall, we need to look behind us and ask what we chose not to see and therefore tripped over, not look over at our Father and ask why he didn't warn us the rock was there. At all times God is willing to carry His little girls piggy-back and never ever put us down, but being the silly girls we are, we insist that we are old enough to walk unaided. As soon as he lets us start skipping along on our own, we're sure to stumble once we're far enough away. So be encouraged, sister, the only thing you need to do is ask for our Father to pick you back up and carry you along, and He'll make sure you're path is anything but difficult.

It pretty much sums up my response to this chapter as well. It call comes down to relying soley in Christ. If you're hearing echos of earlier posts, you should be. This is what ee is talking about the whole time. If we don't have these foundations in Him and we don't seek His Word and His will above all else, we're just fighing a losing battle, wasting precious effort, and acting like fools.