As a young follower of Jesus I want to share part of my experience of being single until marriage.
Being single I was looking for ways to please God and I was very concerned to find the person who would spend the rest of my life by my side. I went to camps and I thought I would find someone, I saw a lot in a woman the spiritual potential which led me many times to start a friendship and tried to find an approach but nothing worked until one day I looked for the first time to whom today is My wife, then went from being a young man who talked a lot and wanted to socialize, to be a young man who could not talk to him or be able to find a friendship. It often happens that when you fall in love you are filled with fears and grief but this was not the case. I began to meditate and pray asking because with her I could not get close and it was at that moment that I began to examine my spiritual life and see if I was acting as God asked me to do it.
Ephesians 5: 26-27
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it, to sanctify it, having purified it in the washing of water by the word, in order to present it to himself, a glorious church, that he should not have spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but that he should be holy and without blemish. So also husbands should love their women as their own bodies. He who loves his wife, loves himself."
I could understand as a young single the great responsibility that it is to have a wife and the privilege that God gives us. Passing 4 years later understanding this principle and God working in my life it was he who joined us together confirming in prayer with our pastoral authority and with the rest of the congregation that our union came from God. Today we are happily married, not being perfect but recognizing that we unite ourselves by loving to glorify the Father and to do his will in our lives.
God has the right help to that person indicated, seek God, wait their time and remember that the family is born from the heart of God are the basis to undertake the path of maturity that requires a marriage. So before being carnal or sentimental first it is important to be spiritual, to be filled with God and to know that nothing will occupy our place in our lives, in a few words to see marriage and love as part of the blessings that God adds but do not take away. the center of our life, because if we have not experienced fullness in the love of Christ is going to reflect in matrimonial conflicts, nobody is going to teach us better to love than God. When you are filled with God and his love, you understand that to be a good husband and a good wife you have to love according to the word (1 Corinthians 13) and not according to emotions. God's love is not emotional, it is sacrificial, it is delivered, it is passionate, it is humble, it is not selfish, it is not arrogant, it is humble and tender, it does not lose its essence and it knows what forgiveness is. That love that is described in 1 Corinthians 13 is the love of God and to be able to lead a marriage in blessing, unity and love, it is necessary to love as God loves. Do not get blurred, do not go for the beauty of the physical, that does not matter, true love looks at what God sees of us, the heart. By understanding this and embarking on a marriage in this way, we can then enjoy being a family that glorifies God with their way of living in a holistic way.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8(ESV)
The Way of Love
I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,
but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast;
it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
it's a connection of two hearts
it's like that, thanks for commenting.
most welcome,, have a good life
I am always happy to see to lovers unite. So many scriptures for married couples to digest, to have an enjoyable marriage. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thank you very much for commenting.