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I've been reading a lot of Christianly books and several times I've come across the concept of being in a "marriage-like" relationship with God.
Now, this sounds great! And I'm sure it's exactly how it should be with our relationships with God. We take our faith in Him seriously, we focus on Him, His wisdom and guidance and we are completely devoted to Him and no other god.
HOWEVER!
Can a single person who has never been married (no matter how old you are) really grasp this "marriage-like" comparison to a relationship with God?
Personally, I have an idea of how marriage works from what I've seen within my social and family sphere (the good, the bad, the ugly) and for the reasons listed above I can see how we can apply what we know from marriage to our relationship with God... but truthfully since I have zero experience with marriage I can only take that kind of concept so far. I honestly feel like I come up short when I'm being told by others that I should have that "marriage-like" goal. It's like giving a child a hammer and telling them to go build a house. It's one thing to say something should be a certain way and another vastly different thing to actually live it out.
How do others feel about that concept? And does anybody have a better comparison that singles or new young couples could really understand?
Now, this sounds great! And I'm sure it's exactly how it should be with our relationships with God. We take our faith in Him seriously, we focus on Him, His wisdom and guidance and we are completely devoted to Him and no other god.
HOWEVER!
Can a single person who has never been married (no matter how old you are) really grasp this "marriage-like" comparison to a relationship with God?
Personally, I have an idea of how marriage works from what I've seen within my social and family sphere (the good, the bad, the ugly) and for the reasons listed above I can see how we can apply what we know from marriage to our relationship with God... but truthfully since I have zero experience with marriage I can only take that kind of concept so far. I honestly feel like I come up short when I'm being told by others that I should have that "marriage-like" goal. It's like giving a child a hammer and telling them to go build a house. It's one thing to say something should be a certain way and another vastly different thing to actually live it out.
How do others feel about that concept? And does anybody have a better comparison that singles or new young couples could really understand?