How would you react if God told you to marry a prostitute, like with Hosea, or a drug addict, or alcoholic or any other thing that might be on your list of "Disqualifying Traits"?
Would you have ears to hear like Hosea did and be obedient? Or would you lean to your own understanding and be dull of hearing and harden your heart?
I have thought about this quite a bit as I have heard people discussing "waiting on the one the Lord wants for them" while also discussing the "list of disqualifying traits in a mate" and I wonder how much conflict may exist in these two things.
We are told not to condemn others but also that we should judge righteously. So we must know that no one is condemned to not be loved. So if we are to say that a person is useless to us, are we not saying that they are useless to anyone?
Condemn: To declare to be not fit for use.
So while we might tell others that we would never be with someone that <fill in the blank>, what would we do if God told us to (like Hosea)?
Interesting in hearing other's thoughts on this.
Would you have ears to hear like Hosea did and be obedient? Or would you lean to your own understanding and be dull of hearing and harden your heart?
I have thought about this quite a bit as I have heard people discussing "waiting on the one the Lord wants for them" while also discussing the "list of disqualifying traits in a mate" and I wonder how much conflict may exist in these two things.
We are told not to condemn others but also that we should judge righteously. So we must know that no one is condemned to not be loved. So if we are to say that a person is useless to us, are we not saying that they are useless to anyone?
Condemn: To declare to be not fit for use.
So while we might tell others that we would never be with someone that <fill in the blank>, what would we do if God told us to (like Hosea)?
Interesting in hearing other's thoughts on this.