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I see the generations before me. People were married from the ages of 16-24.
I am now 24; I am not married, I've never had a girlfriend, and I don't even know a girl that would be a possible mate. I'm poor, with enough money to get me by, and with not much of a future ahead of me. "So that's you", you may say. But! ....
As I've been noticing for some time now, many, many people are going through this same thing! In this generation, we have 30 year old singles still waiting for marriage! They are sad (like me), they are tired of it (like me), and they see others, and are embarrassed (like me). We are discontent -- discontent Christians. What a shame to be married at 40, only to never even see your own grandchildren!
So perhaps, by the time I am 30, the chances of me ever being married will be gone? Is this where our Christian zeitgeist regarding matrimony is headed?
So, can this be considered the will of God, then, for us?
So then, should be view singleness with the loneliness and the sadness that we associate it with? Should we begin something that the majority of the generations before us never saw, a blessed singleness?
Of course, we always hear our pastors preach on marriage as almost a necessity (and they were married at a young age, of course), but perhaps there must be a new trend. A new view on marriage and singleness. Perhaps we should stop wanting to be married, and instead remain single, for the glory of God. "For I would that all men were even as myself", Paul wrote; so we see that marriage is not necessary, and it was not even done by that man whom God chose.
[h=2][/h]Well, what do you all say?
I am now 24; I am not married, I've never had a girlfriend, and I don't even know a girl that would be a possible mate. I'm poor, with enough money to get me by, and with not much of a future ahead of me. "So that's you", you may say. But! ....
As I've been noticing for some time now, many, many people are going through this same thing! In this generation, we have 30 year old singles still waiting for marriage! They are sad (like me), they are tired of it (like me), and they see others, and are embarrassed (like me). We are discontent -- discontent Christians. What a shame to be married at 40, only to never even see your own grandchildren!
So perhaps, by the time I am 30, the chances of me ever being married will be gone? Is this where our Christian zeitgeist regarding matrimony is headed?
So, can this be considered the will of God, then, for us?
So then, should be view singleness with the loneliness and the sadness that we associate it with? Should we begin something that the majority of the generations before us never saw, a blessed singleness?
Of course, we always hear our pastors preach on marriage as almost a necessity (and they were married at a young age, of course), but perhaps there must be a new trend. A new view on marriage and singleness. Perhaps we should stop wanting to be married, and instead remain single, for the glory of God. "For I would that all men were even as myself", Paul wrote; so we see that marriage is not necessary, and it was not even done by that man whom God chose.
[h=2][/h]Well, what do you all say?