Hard to believe, ladies, but I’m still single. Good looking blogger like me, crazy, right?
It’s easy to start moping. Our culture is a pretty lonely place, and we assume that if we found the right person we’d have all that we long for. It doesn’t help that churches tend to aim at couples and families. We throw ourselves in our jobs, or pick up a hobby or drink a lot.
This has been rightly called “the selfish years,” a time for you to do your thing and establish who you are. Which makes a lot of sense to me, except for when I read 1 Corinthians 7. Paul, the most famous of all single Christ followers thought that being single was the best possible option. Without a spouse and children, a single person can focus solely on kingdom goals.
It feels like I have been waiting around for my life to begin. In my down time, I get caught up in my career and relational failures, or ignore them by going to a party or watching Hulu. If I told Paul this, he would read me a laundry list of hurting people in my community, homeless people in my city and entire people groups who know nothing about Jesus.
Still single? Good. There’s a lot of work to do.
How do you navigate the single life? What examples have you seen of people devoting that season to God?
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