Hey everyone it's Leslie Lutie host of the Set Apart Girl podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Today we're going to dive into a topic that has so many single women confused.

How should we spend our single years?

And the reason I really wanted to tackle this

is because I talked to so many single women

who are Christians, but yet they are feeling

an enormous pressure to pursue guys and pursue marriage and really

believing that they truly cannot live their life that God has called them to live until they finally meet Mr. Wright and settle down and get married.

The reality is that when we take that approach to thinking we can't really be happy, we can't

really live life until we finally get married is that we end up putting a lot of

unhealthy pressure and expectation into marriage thinking that marriage is

going to solve all of our problems.

Marriage is what's going to make us truly happy and fulfilled.

The reality is that there are really just a new set of pressures and difficulties

and challenges that come once you're in the married season.

So if you are single or know someone who's single and just have that temptation to believe that

you'll finally be happy and everything will finally be as it was

meant to be once you get married, it is so important to take a step back and realize that Jesus is meant to be

our all and all, whether we're single or married.

There is beauty and life in the single years, there is beauty and life in the married season, but the bottom line is that Jesus needs to remain

our true fulfillment, our ultimate source of happiness and contentment.

Otherwise, we'll just be looking to marriage or the hope of marriage to meet needs in our heart that only Jesus can meet.

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