Trusting the ultimate Matchmaker for your special soul mate
Have you ever considered the possibility that God already has a perfect match planned for you? If that’s true, how can you cooperate with him to meet your future soul mate?
First, you must be willing to do things God’s way and to patiently wait for his timing. God loves you and is committed to your well-being. He wants to guide your steps and choices so you can enjoy all the best he has to offer. God knows whether being married is a part of his ideal plan and purpose for you. And if it is, he also knows who will be your best mate. In fact, God is in the process of custom-designing and life-crafting that person just for you. Sounds incredible, right?
God’s Way
God wants to be the focal point of your relationship. And because of that fact, he’s not just going to drop a mail-order soul mate on your doorstep. Instead, he wants to take you on a personal journey that will transform you and result in a deeper love relationship with him.
To help us understand how God views us and how greatly he values our life, God has given us the Bible. The Bible is God’s road map to his best for your life. We can clearly understand his desires, obtain an accurate perspective for reality and access the resources he offers us for this supernatural journey.
His commands are the guardrails. His principles are the signposts. His promises are the billboards describing the opportunities ahead. These are the spiritual truths and laws of the universe. And, like physical laws such as gravity, these spiritual laws can be ignored, but always to our peril.
In addition to giving us the Bible, God has also placed himself within believers in the person of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our resident guide and counselor. He empowers us to do God’s will and can transform us into the kind of person God desires us to be.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. —Romans 12:2
God’s supreme objective for you is that you continually love him more than any other person or any other thing. He wants to be the very center of your life—even after you have met the wonderful soul mate he has planned for you.
God’s Timing
Perhaps you are already trusting God for his best and following his directives, but you still have not met your perfect match. You may be wondering, What’s wrong? Why is nothing happening? Well, something is happening; you just can’t see it. God is quietly at work.
God’s fulfillment of our desires is seldom immediate. It was God who first acknowledged that it wasn’t good for Adam to be alone. But he waited to create Eve. First, God had Adam go through the process of naming all the animals in the Garden of Eden. Why? We believe that God wanted Adam to fully realize his need and to understand that, apart from God intervening, his personal need would remain unmet. When the time was right, God brought Eve into Adam’s life. And when he did, Adam appreciated Eve and God all the more.
We would like to encourage you to see this soul-mate journey as your adventure with the God who is your Helper and Guide.
The above article is an abridged version of Chapter 1 of the book, Soul Mate by God (Download the free ebook in PDF). Visit SoulMatebyGod.com for more resources.