Who is Writing Your Love Story?

We women sure love love. The current label for a twenty-first-century love story is a ''chick flick'' or ''chick lit''. Whatever these stories are called, why do women get excited about reading or seeing a new love story played out on pages or on the big screen- whereas a man groans at the prospect of having to sit through another one? Why is a woman willing to sit through a werewolf and vampire battle between Jacobs and Edward in Twilight in order to see who wins over Bella's heart and a few moments of a tender love story? The answers are simple: Love to a woman is her whole life. Love to a man is only part of his life.

Most of the famous literature about love being the center of a woman's world. Even in Paul's famous passage about the roles of men and women in marriage (Ephesians 5), he didn't command a woman to love her husband but he did command the husband to love his wife. Why? Love for a man is too often a vague reality, but for a woman, it is as bright as a sunrise over the ocean.

A great example can be showed through the recent news about former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan currently spending his first day outside a prison after his lawyers posted US$6 million bond in the wake of his indictment on sexual assault and attempted rape charges. He should be largely thanks to the apparently limitless love and money supplied by his wife Anne Sinclair, heiress of her grandfather art masterpieces worth several hundred million dollars. Despite what her husband did, she still chose to standby and support him.

I know we all have that love hunger. But, who is writing our love story: us or God? Are we willing to wait for God's best, or rather settle for a guy we pick out just because we're tired of waiting? I hope you've been enveloped in the love of God as you've read and become convinced that only One person knows what-and who-is really right for you.

As a young woman, I was such a romantic, and God used the leading man in the book of Ruth to introduce me to a sacred romance that surpassed anything I ever read about in literature. For me, Ruth presented a love story that beats all the love stories written since! The good news is: God is still writing love stories.

The One who wrote the first love story will also be the Author of the last love story. God's love for mankind was the first love story in the book of Genesis, and the last love story is already recorded in the last book of the Bible. The story includes a big wedding, and those who love God and are loved by God will be His bride at the elaborate Marriage Feast of the Lamb to be held in eternity future.

Let God write our love story. Let Him surpass all our expectations with a Man truly Worth Waiting For. Let Him bring your own Boaz, and your love story will be as powerful as his was!