17Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. 18Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. 19 For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.
1 Corinthians 7:17-19 (ESV)
Marriage has become a distraction and a source of jealously and discontentment for me. While it is not wrong for me to want to be married, it is wrong for me to make such an idol out of it. Whether I am single or married, slave or free, circumcised or uncircumcised has no eternal value. Keeping the commands of God, being a slave to Christ is the only thing that will truly matter in eternity and they are also the only things that can bring me true purpose and passion.
With that in mind, I will stop seeking to be married. Instead I will seek divine enslavement to Christ. If I meet a fellow slave to Christ who I'd rather live with than live without and the feeling is mutual, I will marry. As it stands now, there are only crushes I would rather live without.
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