Just the One: Made for Me

 In this heartfelt episode, Shirah Chanté delves into "Just the One," a powerful poem from her book "Jaundiced View." Through the lens of Adam and Eve's story, she explores the divine nature of relationships and what it means to be "made for" someone. This episode tenderly addresses the question that haunts many young hearts: what happens if your first destined relationship doesn't work out? With spiritual wisdom and personal insight, Shirah shares God's revelation about love, second chances, and His provision of "replacements" when original connections don't last. Perfect for teenagers navigating their first experiences with love and anyone seeking to understand God's design for relationships. The episode includes a beautiful prayer for listeners to find and successfully nurture their divinely appointed relationships.

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 Draw near to God, don't fear. Draw near to God, don't fear. Draw near to God, don't fear.

Welcome to Teens Draw Near to God Poetry Podcast. I am your host, Shirah Chanté. Blessing God's people with music, art, and poetry. Thank you so much for joining me today. Teenagers, parents of teens, coaches, therapists, counselors, pastors, teachers, anyone who really wants to see teenagers reach their God given destiny.

This show is for you. What I do is I read a poem right now. I'm reading from my book, John Deist View, desire, love, hate, religion. You can find it on Amazon and read it yourself. The poems in here will bless you, inspire you, motivate you, make you cry, make you sigh, astonish you. It's good. It's good for poetry.

It's good to reach those deeper emotions that we need to dig up out of ourselves.

How are you? I really hope you're doing well. I hope you prospered this week. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. We're in the Hanukkah holiday right now. Tonight is It's day four of Hanukkah. And so let's get going with today's poem. We are reading Just the One. This is a poem in the love chapter of my book, Jaundiced View.

It has four chapters, desire, love, hate, religion. So love is just the one. It's probably my favorite chapter. All right. I'm going to read the entire poem and we're going to just get right into it. Go through the poem line by line and see how this poem will help us draw near to God. The Heavenly Father, James 4, 8 says, draw near to God and he will draw near to you.

Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, ye double minded sinners. So we want to cleanse ourselves. We want to be purified. And in this way, we are getting closer to God because it's easy in this world to get dirty and tainted through so many avenues, through what we watch, what we hear, what we see, what we wear, all kinds of things can have an effect

cleanliness, our purity and our own soul and our own mind and thoughts. And so we want to keep a clean channel of communication with the divine by cleansing ourselves, cleansing our soul.  You wash your body, you take a bath every day or however often you want to take a bath. And. You, or a shower.

You get the picture. So if you cleanse your outward appearance, your body, your face, your hair, don't you think you should cleanse your soul? Why not?  Why not cleanse the inside of you, your thoughts, your feelings, your desires? Those should be cleansed as well on a daily basis. So I'm here to help you do that.

So that we can grow closer to our Heavenly Father. Okay, so I'm going to read the poem, Just the One. You think I'm open, I'm open and true. I have no protection, protection from you. You penetrate me. Penetrate me deep. You evaluate and see that I am just so free.

There's no one like me. I'm just the one. So true. I will never leave you blue. I'm just the one for you. you. And that is the poem, Just the One. I love this one. I love, I just love talking about love, love poems. This is great. Okay. So you think I'm open. I'm open and true. Open. What are we, what are you, what are we, what are we saying here, Shira, Shante?

What are we talking about being open?  You're okay. You're Available inside, you're okay with discussing, talking about who you are, how you feel, what you want, there's no mental block there. There's no, resistance there. There's no, blockade you're free.

And then we're going to get to that part. We talked about that. Later on in the poem, there's sometimes in life, there can be something that blocks our access to our own soul. Like we don't know how we feel or, or what we should be feeling or why we feel a certain way or what we want. And so that can happen because of a number of things, because of hurt.

Sometimes if someone hurts you, then now you close your soul. You're not so open any longer because you want to protect yourself. You don't like how it feels to get hurt, how your heart feels when someone says they like you and then all of a sudden they don't like you once you have sex with them or what have you.

There's something there that makes you become guarded and there is a certain,  wisdom in guarding yourself, guard your heart. It says in the Bible, with all due diligence.  Keep your, keep your heart, because out of it comes all the issues of life, all the issues, all the issues of life come from your heart.

So it's something you should guard. And it is something that you should definitely be, uh, selective in who you share your heart with, who you're open with. You think I'm open, I'm open and true. So. This person has decided to be the, this one she's with or the one he's with is safe, a safe person to be open with.

And so that's for you to,  distinguish and you get to know someone to know if it's okay for you to start opening up your life to them, helping them discover your soul and you discover his soul. I have no protection, protection from you. And so it can become this really beautiful communion where you, beautiful relationship where you're very open with each other and you let those guards down because you feel safe with this person.

You feel like this person can be trusted.

You penetrate me, penetrate me deep. So this is not a physical, you can look at this in a physical, you could look at this as someone penetrating someone sexually, but that's not really. Where I was going in this poem, I was thinking more my thoughts, my mind, who I am, and there's like a certain knowing that I feel like you just, you get me, and the name of this show is called made for me.

And so made for me, like you were made for me. Like we get up, you know, have you ever been with someone like that? It just seems like you just click. Right away, like you just don't know why there was a young man in college who I Clicked with very well.

It ended up in a tragic story that I won't get to today, but I Will at some point and but when I met this man, it was just like yeah, we just kind of like clicked It was just it was perfect. It was just we were so comfortable with each other Have you ever been like that with someone? You Like you felt like you didn't really have to talk to each other much.

It was just like, you just kind of were already on each other's wavelength. Like somehow this person was made for you and you were made for him.

You evaluate and see that I am just so free. And we were talking about that earlier, being free, being able to express yourself with this person. To be vulnerable, to let them know your flaws and your weaknesses and not,  and not, and they won't hold that against you.

And I like to think of Adam and Eve. There's no one like me. For Adam, there was only one, and that was Eve. I like to think that God has models. Not those, models we have in the world today. , not  that, person modeling clothes or something else.  Like a model, like  a design, something you  something you follow, a system we follow.

Like, so God made Adam, he made Adam from the dust of the earth.

And then he took a rib from Adam's side. He put Adam in a deep sleep. God performed surgery. And then he took a rib out of the side of Adam and he made E and he made E for Adam because God said it wasn't good for Adam to be alone, that he needed a hoper, he needed someone to help him in life. To be by his side.

To walk through this world with him. And Eve was the one. There's no one like me. I'm just the one. So true. Eve was just the one. So true. For Adam. And I like to think that there's someone for everyone. There has to be someone for everyone. If God made Eve for Adam. I feel like God made me for someone. God made you for someone.

God made someone for you. There has to be, but it's like, how do you get to that person? I've had these questions and what if that person doesn't work out? You don't know like what it is. It's so Adam and Eve were together and they were, they stayed together. According to the Bible, they were, it was just them.

They were the first human beings. But what happens when you find one you were meant to be with, you were made for, or who was made for you? It seems like the woman is made for the man. If we follow the biblical model, Eve was made for Adam, so the woman is made for the man. So if you're a woman, you were made for someone, and you're a man, there was someone made for you.

Okay? Are you getting this?

I will never leave you blue. I'm just the one for you. And I'm sure that's how Adam felt and Eve felt wonderfully about each other. They didn't have to be concerned. She was totally open with him. Everything was beautiful. That's how it is like when you meet someone you just made for. You're just open.

You're just free and you're just, ah, it's like a breath of fresh air. Like you get the. A sigh of relief. Have you ever felt like that with someone? I have.  I have had the pleasure of feeling like that with someone, like, Oh, thank you. 

Oh, I hope you have that opportunity someday. And I, I really believe that God, when you're made for someone, you have to meet that person. You, you have to, you're going to meet them. Like. And why would God make you for someone or make someone for you and not give you the opportunity to meet that person?

You won't meet them, but it's what are you going to do when you meet them? Is it going to last? And what if it doesn't? If you're made for someone and he's made for you and it doesn't work out, is that it? Do you not get anyone else? No, I think I've been asking God about this and he's been revealing some things about this subject.

And this is what I believe God told me that when you're made for someone, it doesn't work out. There is a replacement.  There, there can be a replacement because God knows us and he knows what we need and we need love. So there, there is a replacement. If it doesn't work out with the one you were made for, then God just.

someone else. I've, because I've grown up thinking about this. Like, ah, there has to be that, we think about that, the one, and we say that, is he the one, is she the one, what are we saying? Is that, are they the one we're made for? Are they the one who were made for us? And so I really do believe that it's beautiful when you meet the one you're made for and it works.

But when it doesn't, even if it doesn't and there's mistakes that happen and you two just don't, make the relationship work like it should, you don't get the guidance, there are certain things that have to happen in a relationship. Sometimes you need counseling. Sometimes you just be patient with each other, and know that you're learning each other and there's going to be some ups and downs, but sometimes it doesn't work.

But even if it doesn't, God. Makes a way, out of no way, and he has someone for you, so you don't have to be alone. And blue, I will never leave you blue, I'm just the one for you. So I pray, Lord God, that those listening will find the one for them, and we'll end up with that person, and it will work out for them.

But even if it doesn't, Lord. I pray that they will have your replacement for them and it will work out eventually. They will get the guidance they need, that they will be patient and loving of one another. Love is patient. Love is kind. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen. And you're still young as teenagers.

You're still young. So you don't, this doesn't have to be something that you rush into. I remember the person that God revealed to me that I was made for, that relationship did not work out. However, I met him when I was 18 years old, was I 18? No, I met him when I was 19. I met him when I was 19 years old.

So I did meet him as a teenager. He was older by that time. He was older than me, a couple of years or a year older. And so you have time. This is just something to, wet your emotions so that you can be thinking about these things and be prepared in advance and be successful in love. All right. Thank you for joining me today.

This is Shirah Chanté. Remember to love God. Love you. And love people.