Because I see variations of this all over, all the time...
Poll God and The OneIf you have Scripture references or another basis for your belief (or any additional thoughts on the topic at all), please feel free to share that in a comment.
Edit: Just realized it's going to drive me nuts if people choose the "Scriptural basis" option for one of the affirmative
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As you can tell, I'm not sold on singleness always being a "permanent" gift, though it certainly can be. I may be wrong about that, but such a view dispels competition between singleness and marriage-you use the gift you have at the time for the Kingdom, rather than either using it just for your own good or spending your energy longing for the other one. But it's an interpretation issue and one I hold loosely.
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Wanting and asking is part of our freedom, and even our duty, but without a promise from God, I'd no sooner speak with certainty about a future mate than to declare someone healed who I wanted Him to make well. The latter is clearly off-base, but Christians seem far too accepting of the former. Our faith must be informed by His promises, not by our wishes.
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I keep things simple. I'm supposed to glorify God today. Today I am single. I should glorify God as a single person today.
I don't want to be single, but I figure that God is protecting women from the like of me out of respect for His mother, as the Catholics like to call her. I always think, when reminded that married people will have trouble in this life, that single people will also have trouble in this life, but are less likely to have anyone pick them up when they fall. I have absolutely no idea how all of this works, but I have a dead woman and a couple of dysfunctional women in my past to convince me that I don't understand anything but pain and perseverance. Just today my ex-sort-of-girlfriend's mother told me I lack romance, to which I replied, "What're you talking about? I'm full of romance. Just look at me right now. I'm dreaming beautiful, romantic things! I couldn't be more romantic than this!" Then I ( ... )
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And really, that's not even what initially gave rise to my question. I often notice people making reference to "the one God has for you/me/her/him" with great certainty and gusto. For me to have that level of confidence, I'd need God to have made a promise in which I was resting. Without that, on what does my certainty rest? And if there's no promise, do we have any business committing God to a future course of action?
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I'm of the school that if you and your mate choose each other, based on God's qualities/priorities, He will certainly bless the union.
That whole "God has someone out there just for you" stuff is more romance than scripture, in my book. You make the right choice, for the right reasons, and God makes that person the ONE JUST FOR YOU.
But I'm not about to say this view is theology or anything - just observation.
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It's significant, though, that when God promises a mate, it's always a specific and special promise, not a general net cast over all His children.
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Oh, and because I'm a huge dork.
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