An Open Letter to the Christian Girls of the World from One of the Christian Guys of the World

Ladies,

I hope you know what it is we Christian Guys put up with while we're waiting for you. See, we Christian Guys believe firmly that you're worth it - which is why we're not out at the bars and clubs on Friday night chasing random girls. We believe you - and we - are better than that. We believe that real, worth-it relationships don't come easy and that they start with more than a couple of beers and cover charge for the night. We believe that we're more likely to find you sitting a few rows up in front of us at church or at the neighborhood coffee shop than we are out on the town. We're willing to wait, because we want to stay faithful to you, both now - before we've even met you - and in the future.

And I hope you know that believing those things comes at a huge cost for us. You have no idea what a humiliating price of pride we pay as men when we won't do those things that our culture tells us men ought to do. But like I said, we believe you're worth it.

We know it's tough on your end too. There's a lot of pressure for you to look a certain way, to put yourself out there a certain way, to conform to some vague concept of what society tells you a woman should be. We just want you to know: we like you the way you are. We think you're beautiful the way you are. And we want you to stay the way you are until we find you, because we know that we finally do find you there are going to be some serious fireworks, and we're dying to for it to happen. We know that anything the world could cook up for us can't compare to the fullness of what God has in store for those who wait long enough.

So ladies, hang in there. We're right there with you, and we hope you're right there with us. Be patient with us - because I promise you, we're well worth the wait, and so are you.