Wanting to be Pursued (Part 1)

            So I've been reading a couple of posts by the blog Lies Young Women Believe, and there is a series that they published that I want to share with you all. It's all about being pursued. Like the woman who wrote the article, I was always told that if a guy was interested in you, he would make things happen. As single women, we often don't like that answer too much, because it seems as though it has never, or is ever going to happen to us. Am I right? So we make the extra effort to get noticed: we wear nice clothes, do our hair all pretty, walk by his locker 5 times a day, pick classes that he is in, try out for clubs or sports that he participates in - you get my point! We all do it! The woman who wrote this blog post, wrote out some rules-to-live by as women who WANT to be pursued. Here are the first few.....I'll post the others soon!

1. Just as God wired us women to want to be pursued, God wired men to want to pursue!

         I may not know you personally, but still, I know you. Deep down, you don't want to romance a guy. You want a guy to romance you! You want to be swept off your feet. So do it! Sit back, relax, and wait to be pursued, wooed, and won!


2. I'm not actually waiting on a man to pursue me, I'm waiting on God to "gift me" to him!

       Whenever you're feeling frustrated over how long it is taking a guy to notice and pursue you, remember that God is in control of timing, of this guy's heart, of everything.

        Proverbs 18:22 says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD." (Notice because of God's favor, the man finds the woman and not the other way around.) 
Similarly, Proverbs 19:14 tells us, "House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD."

        "The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will" (Prov. 21:1). If the Lord can move the heart of the most powerful man in the land, he can turn any man's heart! 


3. I want a man to prove through his pursuit that he is a man who will lead and love me well after marriage, which will make it much easier to submit to him then.
 
          Let's just imagine that you do capture that special guy's attention. You begin dating, and then he pops the question. Before long, you're a wife! Now what?

           Well, Ephesians 5:22–33 make it clear that as a wife, you are to submit to your husband in everything, as to the Lord. The question is, have you modeled and practiced a different pattern in the months or years leading up to your marriage? Did this man lead and pursue you, or did you pursue him? Don't wait until marriage to hand over the reins of leadership. It won't work well. Start now, and wait for him to step it up and pursue (or not). 

What do you think?