Friday, January 29, 2010

A Gift or a Curse?

First of all I apologize for missing yesterday, It happens from time to time. Anyways, on with today. Is singleness a gift or a curse. Paul says it's a gift: "1 Cor 7:8 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am." This may be the scariest verse in the whole bible for singles. Most single people at one time or another raise a prayer to heaven asking to not be blessed with this gift. But we've got it a little bit wrong.

First of all, it's not a gift, but neither is it a curse, it's just a place in life. Everyone experiences it. There is no way around it, because as far as I know, no one has ever been born married. What Paul talks about through 1 Cor. 7 is how much a benefit to Christianity single people are. They have no one to worry about for how they spend their time or money. They are free to live life how God tells them to live it. Married people have at minimum one other person to start entering into the equation, and eventually children as well. It is beneficial to be single, however most cannot remain so forever, nor is it God mandated that anyone be single. Paul even says in verse 25 Now about virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy. As it says, no command from the Lord. Some are single longer than others, and some forever, but God it seems Gives us the choice as to whether to stay single or not, and God knows our heart.

With that in mind, there is no reason to worry about your present situation of singleness. If you want to get married, it will happen, if not, well that will happen too. What you should strive toward is being content with your present situation. Nowhere in the bible do I see our Heroes of days gone by questioning their place in life as single or married. Rather they just did what God wanted them to do at that moment and eventually God gave them a family. So the best thing to do, make a list of goals of not only what you want to do, but what God may have planned, then do them. And no, you can't put get married on the list, because that will happen in God's time. Just be happy and get a life, you may even forget your single.

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