Learning how to Die #3
Love is hard.
And I don't mean hard in that it costs money or time or energy.
I mean it is hard to even think lovingly about someone, or a situation, or a group of people. Sunday, I was leading worship in a church which seemed rather unconcerned that I was even there. In fact the only comment I got at the end was the mumble 'you forgot the Lord's Prayer'.
I struggled to love those people. A lot. That was in a worship setting where I was supposed to fix my mind upon Jesus and love and all those sort of good Christian things. In fact, I sort of became frustrated with them. Some of that frustration may well have been legitimate - I mean, I think it's pretty ridiculous for people to refuse to open their bibles in church - but I remember leaving that building with a fair amount of contempt in my heart for them.
That was the start of my week.
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If I shall not be one with a woman, who shall I be one with?
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (Gen 2:24)
I was created with the desire to be with a woman.
Adam, in the garden of Eden - even before sin seperated him from God - desired the company of another person. God heard this desire, and made for man a companion, like him yet different. Equally in God's image, yet not in the image of the man. She was woman. Different. Unique. The only one right for the man.
And so the Biblical theology of marriage is that it is a union that existed first in the perfect presence of God.
Marriage, the union of man and woman for life, was the climax of the creation. You can see this, because it was the last act before sin entered the Garden. Humans most fully reflect the nature of God in this union.
So then it is natural for man to desire woman.
He comes pre-loaded with all these desires and feelings he wants to share with a woman.
He comes with a space ready in his spirit that the woman can fill.
I was created with the desire to be with a woman.
I have this space in my spirit for a woman to fill.
I am pre-loaded with desires and feelings I want to share with a woman.
Yet as it is, and as it may be for many years, I am single.
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