Cinderella had Prince Charming, Aurora had Prince Phillip, and Jasmine had Aladdin. And as for me, well I have… no one?
We grow up watching fairytales and start to believe everyone gets their happy ever after. Everyone finds their prince, has the beautiful white wedding and lives forever and ever, amen. Then something changes.
As we begin to get in relationships, we realize it's not all butterflies and daisies. It is hard work and often ends in heartbreak. It’s because of these heartbreaks we begin to lose hope. Suddenly we can only see the hurt that has been experienced, rather than the love that was once felt. And so we begin to give up on the idea of a fairytale life, but we shouldn’t.
We have all experienced the perfect fairytale and it is called the gospel.
When all the men in the world fail you, and you feel like you are unlovable, remember you are worth so much more. God loved you so much he sent his one and only son for you. Jesus came and lived a perfect life full of love and then went and died on the cross for you. He died for all of your imperfections, heartaches and all of your mistakes. He is the perfect son of God and he came for a sinner like you. Our Lord and Savior came and died on the cross for you. All the stress from school, test, boys and so much more, Jesus felt that on the cross. All the heartaches, tears and gasps of air from crying so much; he felt that, too. And all of the long-term heartache we have/had on our hearts, he felt all of that. All of this pain is so temporary because God loved us so much he sent his perfect son to die on the cross for us and felt all of our pain on his shoulders. All of the pain we have and will ever experience, that is nothing compared to what Jesus endured for us because he died for our sinful nature. He died for our lack of concentration in class all the way to the “worst” sin we have ever committed. And we should be so grateful and amazed because of these facts. All the pain and suffering of this world is temporary because one day we will be in eternity with our true king. All of this stress and pain will be gone, all because Jesus endured all of that for us already.
Living in a world that is constantly telling you that you need someone by your side to make you whole is hard. We begin to feel lonely and desperate and do whatever it takes to find anything close to love. But all this love we find is minute to God's love for us. No love on this earth will ever match up to the love God has for you. No sacrifice will ever defeat the sacrifice Jesus did on the cross for us. So while we are out there searching for love, why don’t we stop for a second and realize that a huge overwhelming amount of loves is surrounding us every day. We no longer need to search for it because the king of kings sent down our prince, and now we will be loved forever.
When we are little, we believe in fairytales. We believe our prince will come on a white horse with red roses. In all reality, our prince came on a cross, spilling red blood for our sin.
