Elisabeth Elliot says that she is often asked the question, What can I do to get him to notice me?
Note carefully the advice she gives.
My answer is "NOTHING." That is, nothing toward the man.
Don't call him. Don't write a little note with a smiley face or a flower or a fish under the signature and put it in his campus mailbox. Don't sidle up to him in the hall and gasp. "I've just got to talk to you!"
Don't look woebegone, don't ignore him, don't pursue him, don't do him favors, don't talk about him to nine carefully selected listeners.
There is one thing you can do:
turn the whole business over to God. If he's the man God has for you, "no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:11).
Direct your energies to obedience, not to nailing the man. God has his own methods of getting the two of you together. He doesn't need any help or advice from you.
From: Lesson 7 & 8 of Love, Dating and Marriage by George B. Eager (1987, The Mailbox Club, Inc.)
Note carefully the advice she gives.
My answer is "NOTHING." That is, nothing toward the man.
Don't call him. Don't write a little note with a smiley face or a flower or a fish under the signature and put it in his campus mailbox. Don't sidle up to him in the hall and gasp. "I've just got to talk to you!"
Don't look woebegone, don't ignore him, don't pursue him, don't do him favors, don't talk about him to nine carefully selected listeners.
There is one thing you can do:
turn the whole business over to God. If he's the man God has for you, "no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:11).
Direct your energies to obedience, not to nailing the man. God has his own methods of getting the two of you together. He doesn't need any help or advice from you.
From: Lesson 7 & 8 of Love, Dating and Marriage by George B. Eager (1987, The Mailbox Club, Inc.)
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