The Good Gifts of Singleness and Marriage
It was a great sermon on marriage. Everything that the pastor said that night was Biblical, right and true. Marriage is a profound mystery, how the one-flesh union between a man and a woman is the clearest earthly picture of how believers are perfectly united with God, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, I remember leaving that night though, wondering what my role is as a single woman. How can I display the glory of Christ? This was not the first time I had asked these questions. Within the church we talk about marriage and we talk about singleness but often the kinds of conversations we have about each are completely different in tone. It is easy to celebrate and value marriage and family; and rightly so, for it is a great gift from God! On the other hand, very often there is pressure for singles to get out of their state. One of my fears of writing a blog on singleness is that it would seem I was minimizing the sacredness, beauty and i...