When you were a young Christian girl, how many of you hadn’t read the book or seen Disney’s Cinderella cartoon? How many can remember the song “Someday My Prince Will Come” from the cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? I read the story and saw the cartoon [even as an adult woman]. As far as the song is concerned and my suffering from a genetic condition, it is one of my favorites, as I got married two months before my 43rd birthday, and my dear OH celebrated a 39th birthday three days before our wedding day.
Some day, my prince will come.
Some day, we’ll meet again.
And away to his castle, we’ll go
To be happy forever, I know
Some day, when spring is here
We’ll find a love anew
And the birds will sing
And wedding bells will ring
Someday, when my dreams come true
These two items, more than anything else I can think of, have been what has been instilled in the minds of young Christian women as to the kind of guy they want to have as their husband. Sometimes, young Christian women, still in their late teens, get so fascinated with the guy they’re seeing that they rush unprepared into a marriage. The worst scenario is when their mother tells them not to get involved with that guy.
Fiction sometimes emulates real life, and it is one of the first books I reviewed in 2014. In the story, against her parent’s wishes, the young protagonist decides to run off with a guy her parents had forbidden her to see and gets married to him. Before long, she discovers the truth of what the adorable man she’d married is truly like, and the happy ever after this protagonist had once thought she’d found has now become merely a nightmare no woman wants to be in.
Sometimes, as Christian women get older, their desperation even leads them to get involved with a nonbeliever with whom they get married to. Perhaps they hope that they’ll be able to turn their new husband into a believer. The problem here is that they’ve forgotten the scripture that forbids this, 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14 [NKJV]:
“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?”
And even though a Christian woman might have found a marvelous, religious guy to be married to, there’s no guarantee that there won’t be any problems in their marriage. Doubters only need to check out some of the posts posted in Christian Facebook groups that deal with wives and marriage. Even worse than this, according to a True Crime book that I reviewed, there are men of faith who are also men of murder [of their wives]. The best path for Christian women to find their Prince Charming is to find someone who shares the same things they love, especially an adoration for the Lord. Enter into the bounds of Holy Matrimony in sight of the Lord. Then, they live their marriages in the manner the Lord wants them, and if necessary, seek guidance to ensure they remain on the correct path so their marriages will seem as if they’ve been made in heaven.
Have a BLESSED DAY, my dear sisters-in-Christ. And if you’re in search of the perfect guy to get married to, just be patient, for the Lord someone planned for you to find at the time and place he has chosen.
TRYING TO BE A GOOD CHRISTIAN WOMAN 