A Note to My Single Friends
Although I am single, I have never wanted to be known as “the singles” blogger, but occasionally I suppose it is good for an older single to share some insights with others who are walking through the same stages of life as I am. Like most women, I would like to be married but I am not pining for a day that might never come (or at least I’m trying not to do so). Although there are benefits to being married, there are also plenty of benefits for singles as well if that is where God has you.
In 1 Corinthians 7:32 and 33, Paul tells us: “The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife.”
I think this is one of the biggest things that we take for granted. I realize that single people live busy lives too, but to some degree, we schedule the busyness in our lives. What’s the point of sitting around when there are people to see and activities to participate in (when we’re not working, that is)?
I would like to encourage each of you to not neglect quality time with God while you can more easily communicate with Him without interruption. You may need to be creative, but I hope you will be so in order to make the time. Don’t just pray on the run as you grab coffee and a doughnut, but find time to really learn of Him, to listen, to know what He desires of you. It’s easy to think of these years as ones of “freedom” but let’s use that freedom to serve Him.
When I listen to my married friends with children talk about how they go out to the car to get some quiet or they spend extra time in the bathroom so they can have a few minutes, I realize what a luxury I have, and I pray not to squander it. I want to draw closer to my Lord until it is no longer I who lives but Christ who lives in me. Then and only then will I have something to give to my future spouse. And if God desires to use me as a single person for the rest of my days, I will be that much stronger and able to give to others around me.
On Christ the solid rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand
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