Does true love wait?
Rebecca St. James singing Wait for Me in April 2007. This song was written about true love waits. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Last week, I came across a blog post entitled " I Don't Wait Anymore " written by a young woman in the U.K. Her main premise is that the emphasis on "waiting," sexually and otherwise, for a future spouse — a view we've received through " True Love Waits " and other campaigns — promotes the wrong picture of God . It essentially teaches you that if you wait in the correct manner, God will reward you with a spouse. But what happens when God doesn't hold up His end of the bargain? There are a lot of girls out there who don’t know who God is anymore — the God of their youth group years just isn’t working out. Back then, that God said to wait for sex until they are married, until He brings the right man along for a husband . They signed a card and put it on the altar and pledged to wait.... Some of them have prayed their w