I recently wrote out a Two Month Plan for getting the guy I like. A friend and I decided that one of our goals for the summer would be to end up with boyfriends, and we would do this by implementing Two Month Plans. Mine is very specific, albeit embarrassing, but easily accomplished.
However, I can’t do any of it if the guy doesn’t cooperate, and it is unfair for me to expect him to take part in my immature crusade. I’m nineteen years old, for crying out loud. I should know by now that these things don’t work. How many teenage romantic comedies have I seen? Answer: enough to know that my attempt will be futile. Oh, I know that the girl always gets the guy or the guy always gets the girl. But that’s the way it is in movies. That’s not real life.
As I place unreasonable expectations on this guy, I place the same expectations on God. Why should He follow my plan? I talk all the time about the importance of the opposite kind of following. Romantic relationships, though, have been my biggest power struggle. I want it to go my way. I have imagined each step of my plan, and it is wonderful. But who am I to decide what our future should be? I am no one. If we are to have a journey together, it will be our journey, not just mine. And if we do it the way we ought, it will be directed by God, not by us.
I must learn how to be content. As much as I want more, I must learn how to be satisfied with a friendship. Most importantly, I must seek God first. If I seek Him above all else, His will will be done. If a romantic relationship is His will for the next two months of my life, that’s awesome. If I’m going to stay single for the next 30 years, I know that He will teach me how to be more completely satisfied by Him.
The first and only item on my Two Month Plan must be to seek God and God alone.
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