“A slip of paper handed to me at a seminar had this question written on it: ‘What do you do when you feel you’ve come to a point that your singlehood appears to be an inadequate status for deep personal growth? How long do you hang on?’ Good thing I wasn’t on the platform when that question came. I might have chuckled. I toyed with the idea of giving a facetious answer: ‘Three more days, then go out and either ask somebody to marry you or hang yourself.’ But of course that was not what I said. The crux of the matter is that phrase ‘an inadequate status for deep personal growth.’ Is that what singleness is? Does that mean that marriage and only marriage is an adequate status for deep personal growth? How ever did Jesus manage, then, as a single man? I’m afraid the snake has been talking to that person. He’s been sneaking up and whispering, ‘God is stingy. He dangles that beautiful fruit called marriage before your eyes and won’t let you have it. He refuses you the only thing you need for deep personal growth, the only thing in all the world that would solve all your problems and make you really happy.’” - Elisabeth Elliot, “Passion and Purity”
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:36:42 +0000
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