You Ain't Married!

Singles Week Revisited Pt. 4: 'You Ain't Married!!'1Cor. 6:16-17 - 'And don't you know that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, 'The two are united into one. But the person who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.' NLTAs

I travel the country, I see and hear so much that is going on with singles in the body of Christ. One major distress is the fact that many singles desire prayer for their boyfriends or girlfriends and ask people to pray for them that they will straighten up and marry them. This is something that I will never agree with or understand.I can understand how people may have accept Christ after living in sin with a person they are not married to, and then desire for this person to accept Christ, but your concern at this point must be you and not them! Even though you may feel you love them, you must love God more. Even though you may have built a family with them outside of marriage vows, you did it, not God. So, you cannot expect God to bring you together with this person if you are the one that decided to live illicitly and pursue a family outside of God's will. You must keep in mind that you chose to live in sin and produce a family without a commitment. So, instead of asking God to put you all together, ask God for his will for you.

We should never pursue relationships, child bearing, or any kind of family without the blessing of God. I know women that will reach out and grab a man just to have someone. And I know men that will go to great lengths to have women on call for sex and will even pretend to be interested in marriage! And they are so called Christians!People, the only thing you can trust and the first thing you should pursue in this life is a relationship with God. The closer you get to him, the less you will desire to live like that. And you will be able to see through the fake and the phony. You will know when a person is sent by God or whether you are fulfilling a fleshly desire to have someone for a brief period in time. You will not birth children in strange relationships that will cause them to not have all that they deserve in being raised. You will not fall victim to divorce and have to break vows and covenants that you made before God. Single's remember! You are not married!

That means, you can walk away from any relationship that is not the right relationship. If you are not married, stop praying like it, living like it, or seeking God about it. Let that unsaved boyfriend or girlfriend go and trust God. If it is meant to be, they will accept Christ, and then come calling on you again. And if it's not meant to be, then God just saved you from more pain and agony down the road. Trust God either way.

Suggested Reading: Matt. 19:29, 1Cor. 6:13