Unfaded Attraction

I was working as the high ropes course instructor at Camp Carl, sharing Jesus’ love and grace with the campers in whatever way I could find.  It was the summer I surrendered the area of dating to the One Who is Three in One.  The One Who gave me the desire for intimate relationship in the first place.  As a result of that surrender, I broke up with my boyfriend, despite my ever-increasing longing for a husband, and the engagement ring we had gone to look at so I could try it on.  It was one sunny afternoon that very same summer that I heard it for the first time . . . 

I had read that passage of Scripture before.  But this was the first time I really heard it.  “Unfading beauty.”  “Great worth in God’s sight.”  My heart found a new longing that day.

That passage of Scripture in first Peter 3 talks about how to be a wife.  More specifically, verses 1 and 2 say that this kind of inner beauty would be so attractive that it could very possibly win a husband to Christ, if he were not already a believer. 

Clearly, I was hooked.  Hello, unfading beauty?!?  I mean, here I had God’s secret for not only attracting an amazing man of God but, even more than that, for keeping him attracted. 

And that, my dear friends is when I decided to unwaveringly entrust the rest of my life’s dating relationships to God Himself.

It’s also when I began praying for my future husband, the very same year that my husband (of now almost 14 years) surrendered his life to Jesus Christ!

Over the next few weeks, I plan to study this Scripture more in depth.  I expect that God has pretty pointed things to say about our vigilance as wives.  So I hope you’ll join me.

In fact, I hope you’ll join me today in thinking through what it means to be a vigilant wife.  Link up here.  Or leave a comment.  Please?