Celibacy or Marriage?

[Alive4Jesus]

Dear Beloved,

I would like to know how and when I can know that I am ready to date, I mean to begin or to start relationship.
Is there any period of life to begin dating and then get married?
And if GOD made me for the celibacy as Paul wrote it in 1Corintians saying that GOD gave a gift to a man and one to another.
When becoming and serving Jesus Christ as Paul did, is there any wife ready to share that kind of Ministry?

The debat is to be continuing.

Thansk for responding me.

Shalom!!!

 

[Lion_of_Judah]

Shalom Alive4Jesus

Welcome to TJ !


If you've got the desire for marriage, I'd have to say Pauls word about being a Eunich isn't for you :wink:


As far as being ready..


Strive to be the person of God He wants you to be.. continually..
and trust Him to work out the details of who and when you'll meet.


God bless you on your journey,
LoJ

 

[Agapē]

Dear friend,

Do not find it necessary, at any time in your life, to start a relationship. Now, I am not saying that you shouldn't marry, or start one. But the more you seek one, the more you will be hurt. If you've prayed about this, and you think He hasn't really answered the prayer, then it may be He's telling you His most precious answer: wait. I would share the poem here, but I'll post it in the poetry thread for you to read.

God bless, and may He forever guide you,

Agapē

 

[stephen]

Alive4Jesus.... like it......Yes we are all alive for Him.

The book says "He that findeth a wife......findeth a good thing".....after 43 years of marriage this year I can say Amen to that.

However I do have good friends, and attractive too, that have never married......We cannot pass judgement on the matter, for other folks,,,because we are all so different.

Paul said "Better to marry than burn" with a desire for a woman.

Each alone know their own personality......longing...and desire. Advice can be sought...nothing wrong with that. But the final decision remains with the individual

 

[Alive4Jesus]

You're welcome!

Alive4Jesus.... like it......Yes we are all alive for Him.

The book says "He that findeth a wife......findeth a good thing".....after 43 years of marriage this year I can say Amen to that.

However I do have good friends, and attractive too, that have never married......We cannot pass judgement on the matter, for other folks,,,because we are all so different.

Paul said "Better to marry than burn" with a desire for a woman.

Each alone know their own personality......longing...and desire. Advice can be sought...nothing wrong with that. But the final decision remains with the individual

Dear Stephen,

Thanking you for your response, you need to know that, in fact, I wondered for a long time about chosing or living the Celibacy of the Marriage.
Truly, I would prefer to live as a Single in case the Lord GOD confirmed my heart desire, since I was a litle boy, to become a Missionnary. And Paul has always been my model in the way to do the Mission. Hence I found he was rigt when writing it is better for a man to refrain from having a wife . Because of the Kingdom of GOD. And what is the woman ready and available to have for husband a man caled by the Lord GOD to do the Mission with no stable house and who is always in movement. Personnaly and in my human thought, there is no one earth. But, Our Heavenly Father is Sovereign to put me into confusion on the matter.
Let's look at Paul who never was at the same place and always in movement: either in Greece or in Philippes or somewhere else. And in 1Timothy 5:8 we read that he who doers not care his family is worse than an unfaiful. I would never like to be judged and lose Everlasting Life and Salvation because of doing not care my own.
In reality, the great question to me is not to get married or not but to know which one GOD made me for. But, over all, I would like to stop wondering about it. because the most important to me is to reach people and witness Jesus Christ everyday and everywhere the Holy Spirit will send me.
And in consistig with getting married, Jesus Christ said the divorce is not from the lord GOD's will but from men and women's desires. Hence He said that it is because of oour hert which cannot forgive that Moses allowed Jews to divorce from their wives. Matthew 19:3-12. Also, he said again in Matthew 5:31-32 that he who repudiates his wife except for sexual immorality sent her to commit adultery and he who marries a woman who has been repudiated commts adultery. Paul wrote the same when he says that a woman is linked to his man as long as he is alive and cannot separate from him if not she must reconciliate to him. We read it in 1Corintians 7:10-11, 39-40.
That is to say that mariage is not a game as people think to divorce later.
When I was a little boy, I was saying taht i will get married once only al my life and in case of divorcing, iiwill never get married again. But I did not yet read about it in 1Corinthians. I was not yet a teenage.
Ok, I must stop now, by fear of writing what is not allowed. because I spoke a lot. I the beg your pardon.

Thanks a lot for your attention and GOD's Peace and Love to all of you.