When we look at that special other one, a certain biological reaction will occur. In this tournament, it might be nice if we were able to bypass swing one in the desire to hit a homerun with our approach to marriage. It would be just perfect, if we could skip forward, to the time when human expectation stops, and the Spirit’s control begins; but, this will not happen. This is not how that arena was set up: we will have to consider the pressure of being in this location in reality, which seems to be fashioned to push us toward this place of yearning, as mixed with a little contradiction.
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
(1 Corinthians 7:36-40)
Wouldn’t it be nice, if the LORD would repeat this time, here . . .?
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