This week we’re on our last lie we believe for our Summer Online Bible Study of Lies Women Believe, and we’re talking about chapter 9 – Lies Women Believe about Circumstances. If you missed a week or a handout, you can get all of them here.
She was wearing a black fleece and jogging pants the last time she saw her ex-boyfriend in person. He came over to her townhouse to break the news gently. As he walked out the door she thought she’d never see him again. Then he showed up in her living room five years later – this time on her computer screen.
Like some of you, social media is a fairly new dimension of my adult life. I got my first Facebook account when I was 32 years old. For those of you in your 20’s, you may not know an adult life without social media. Regardless, social media has changed relationships with all people – including relationships with past boyfriends.
Like the story above suggests, before when you broke up with a guy and closed the door that final time, it was the last time. Now you have direct access to him at all times through your computer screen. So what might you do? You might search for him, look at his pictures, analyze his post, daydream about the “what if’s?” and “why not’s?”, and possibly even work yourself into a depression.
Friends, whether you realize this or not, this is a form of adultery. I know, you may think I’m being dramatic, but I’m not. It is a form of adultery, and it’s even a form of adultery for you, a single woman.
I share more on this topic of social media and adultery in my article “Is Social Media Leading You Into Adultery?” at iBelieve.com. Join me there to read more.
For most of my life I have felt like I have no one. Sure, I have people around me. Both of my parents stayed married, and I have friends. However, even though God has blessed me abundantly in many ways, giving me mature, godly, older women who can disciple and mentor me has not been one of them.
I would be lying to you if I told you this doesn’t make me sad and leave me bitter. It does. However, I’ve learned the solution for when you feel you have no one. I’m sharing it today for Single Saturdays at Woman to Woman Ministries. Please join me there and find out what you can do, too, when you have no one.
It’s hard to believe that we only have a few more chapters in our Summer Online Bible Study of Lies Women Believe. This week we’re talking about chapter 8 – Lies Women Believe about Emotions. If you missed a week or a handout, you can get all of them here.
I got off the treadmill that morning and sighed. It was the first time I had run in months. “Only 20 minutes,” I said to myself, “I didn’t run for 30 minutes like I had planned. I’m so undisciplined. When will I ever become more disciplined? Why can’t I follow through on anything? I will never meet my goals.”
The thoughts came, one after the other, and spoke with such authority. They didn’t try to convince me of their truth because they spoke what I already thought about myself.
Does this describe you, too? Are you often bombarded by thoughts that you’re not enough, that your little bit of effort should be more, and that you’ll never change?
Today I’m sharing how to fight those thoughts with God’s truth at EncouragementCafe.com. Join me there to read more of my journey and some timeless truth from God’s Word.
Okay, so we’re on chapter 7 – Lies Women Believe about Children. If you’re single, please do not skip over this lie. As I’ve mentioned earlier, getting a firm foundation of your beliefs as a single woman will equip you to stand firm in them when you get into a serious relationship. If you missed a week or a handout, you can get all of them here.
