Hey everyone it's Leslie Ludi. Welcome to the Set-A-G girl podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Today we're going to tackle a really important question that I think a lot of modern Christians

are asking.

Does God write love stories anymore?

Now, some of you may know that Eric and I

have written a book called When God writes your love story,

so obviously we come from the perspective

that God is interested in scripting love stories even in our modern day.

But there has become so much cynicism in the church of whether God is really interested in writing love stories,

if that's just sort of a fairy tale if that's an

unrealistic expectation of God and the popular view really is to take this area of

your life into your own hands, script your own story, and then just sort of ask for God's blessing.

But I want to take a look from a deeper perspective, a biblical perspective of why God wants

to be at the center of this area of our lives and why he's

interested in writing love stories. One of the reasons I think we don't often

see God scripted or God-centered love stories in our culture and our Christian

culture today is because so many

Christians are hesitant to actually give him the pen and let him write the story.

We're hesitant to surrender to him in this area because either we've been told by other people that he's not

interested or maybe we think we're disqualified from a God-written love story

because of mistakes in the past or we simply want the control of this area of

our lives. And I know in my own story that

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