“God has a great purpose for your life and that purpose is bigger than just sitting around waiting for the next chapter, whatever your next chapter may be.”
Mandy Hale shares lessons she has learned through her journey as The Single Women and helpful insight for seasons of waiting on God’s best.
Whether it’s love, a job promotion or having a child, Mandy reminds us that we don’t have to sit in negativity and twiddle our thumbs. We can choose to wait with purpose and live by faith.
“You can certainly wait on God and wait for his plan to unfold, but at the same time you can wait with purpose and you can get out there and you can live your life boldly and take chances and follow your dreams. There’s a lot of life to be lived that happens in the meantime.”
Mandy explains how singleness isn’t always a cheerful place to be, especially when it comes to worldly pressures. She recalls moments of weariness from her book .
“I was weary of buying wedding and baby shower gifts for other people…I was weary of having no one to share my heart and life with my love with.”
Pressing through moments of weariness and seasons of uncertainty, Mandy continues to trust in God’s timing.
“I still feel like I’m in that place where, ‘Okay, God. I’ve been waiting, it’s time now; I’m ready for that next chapter.’ I am still working through that, and writing through that and trying to trust that there is a plan and that God’s timing is much better than mine.”
It’s perfectly normal to experience tough days in the midst of waiting for God’s best. Mandy says the best way to handle those days is to be honest with yourself and with other people.
“Certainly you should maintain a positive mindset about your singleness, but I think it’s also okay to admit when you’re having a bad day or when you’re having that lonely moment.
“Reach out and tell someone, or write about it, or what I’ve done is kind of turned my mini angst moments about singleness into my life’s purpose.”
The enemy wants us believe that we are always alone in our weaknesses, but the truth is that God is always with us as our strength.
“Sometimes as Christians we think that we’re not allowed to have those weak moments and not the case at all. The Bible says, ‘in our weakness, He’s our strength.’
“Those weak moments; whether it’s singleness or something else altogether, are the moment when we really allow God to shine the most brightly through us.”
