Submitted by Maggie
“Ask God to give you the one of His choice to marry. I remember telling our children that it would be better never to marry at all than to marry someone who was not God’s choice for them.”
-Elvera Denning in HopeChest magazine
“I remember reading 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 and saying to the Lord right then and there, ‘Father, I promise you that I will never, never fall in love with anyone who does not love you more than anything on earth, and who does not love Your Word more than anything else. I do not want a nominal Christian. I want someone who really loves You.’ I grew up not knowing any young men like that. Sometimes I wondered if I ever would get married, but it did not bother me because I would never consider breaking my promise to the Lord.”
-Mrs. Elvera Denning in HopeChest magazine
“It often occurred to me that perhaps I had met my future husband and just didn’t know it… My focus had to once again become to seek God’s plan, not my own… My youthful energy and great capacity for love became centered on Him. No longer did wedding bells and babies cloud my vision. In other words, I died to the vision of marriage. I let it go. It was no longer my chief goal in life.”
-Mrs. Nancy Potter in HopeChest magazine
“Surrender now, at your young age, to the idea that God might not have marriage for you…don’t worry about who’s in your future…keep your mind on the Lord. He will only open doors for you one at a time, and when He does, He’ll walk through them with you…if someone asks, ‘Who’s in your future?’ you can safely and wisely answer, ‘The Lord!’”
-Mrs. Nancy Potter in HopeChest magazine
Quotes from HopeChest used by permission. Column originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2000 YLCF Journal.
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