This is a place where we can read, reflect and respond to the traditional scriptures of Lent. Lent is the time where we are made low so that we can appreciate the height of the risen Christ.
concerning the scripture about how being unmarried allows you the ability to be more about the Lord's work. I suppose there is more time....but nothing brings you more into the "nitty gritty" or the "rubber meeting the road" of your Christian walk than marriage. ( Then having kids). It just seems like there's no better place to learn servanthood than in a marriage. There is just an element of learning to die that is always presenting itself. Even in saying all that I would say there is no better state than marriage.
And yet as a still single woman, it seems to me that every morning I must equally die to myself and accept this "gift" of singleness which the Lord has set aside for me for now. That I learn humility and servanthood in my obedience to the Lord's will and timing. In accepting what comes from His hand, instead of hunting on my own. And these lessons I learn directly from the Lord, rather than from the man to whom I am married. I do not doubt that marriage and parenthood teaches these things in a very in-your-face way, but do not forget the struggle that lies in being continually single when some days you wish you were anything but, and when it seems you are the only person who shall remain so. Each has their own challenge, that is why each is granted to so many people. Thank goodness the Lord knows our hearts well enough to know which situation will teach us best how to be more like Him.
that is really well said heather. i really appreciate the struggle of balancing a hope in the future while not becoming a prisoner to hypotheticals. thanks for that post, it really spoke to me.
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concerning the scripture about how being unmarried allows you the ability to be more about the Lord's work. I suppose there is more time....but nothing brings you more into the "nitty gritty" or the "rubber meeting the road" of your Christian walk than marriage. ( Then having kids). It just seems like there's no better place to learn servanthood than in a marriage. There is just an element of learning to die that is always presenting itself. Even in saying all that I would say there is no better state than marriage.
And yet as a still single woman, it seems to me that every morning I must equally die to myself and accept this "gift" of singleness which the Lord has set aside for me for now. That I learn humility and servanthood in my obedience to the Lord's will and timing. In accepting what comes from His hand, instead of hunting on my own. And these lessons I learn directly from the Lord, rather than from the man to whom I am married.
I do not doubt that marriage and parenthood teaches these things in a very in-your-face way, but do not forget the struggle that lies in being continually single when some days you wish you were anything but, and when it seems you are the only person who shall remain so. Each has their own challenge, that is why each is granted to so many people. Thank goodness the Lord knows our hearts well enough to know which situation will teach us best how to be more like Him.
that is really well said heather. i really appreciate the struggle of balancing a hope in the future while not becoming a prisoner to hypotheticals. thanks for that post, it really spoke to me.
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