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You need to get your thinking straight. When God replaces or supersedes something, the new is always vastly superior to the old. The obvious example is the covenant of Law, which is an old covenant. The Law saved no one ever. The New Covenant is infinitely superior. The old covenant had one objective and that was to lead us to Christ. Once we have come to Christ, we are saved. We are no longer subject to the Law, which we could not keep anyway. It is no different in heaven. Marriage is superseded by a relationship vastly superior. it is spiritual, not natural, perfect, not hindered by the human frailties that make even the best marriage inferior to heaven. You need to come to the cross and surrender this aspect of your desires. Every Christian who goes on to maturity faces a great conflict between self will and God's will. Sometimes it comes early in the Christian's experience, sometimes later. Always there is more than one challenge. Lord Jesus faced the same choice - self will and self preservation, or God's will and the cross.Proverbs 18:22
and Matthew 22:30.
Marriage is a good thing, and God withholds marriage in eternity.
I wouldn't say Jeremiah is my role model, i think you brought him up first, but it is a good case potentially to look at, where God withheld marriage from Jeremiah, and it seems to not really even touch on whether or not Jeremiah wanted to have his own family or not. If God forbid it on this earth, and Jeremiah wanted a wife and children, all we know in how God "makes good" on that commitment to be a "eunuch for the kingdom of heaven" is Isaiah 56:3-6
Sure, in eternity you won't need children to carry on your family name, so the promise of a name that will never die can be better in that sense that you don't have to look to children to continue your name and inheritance.
But as far as for having children just to love them and raise them and teach them and see them grow into godly people, and see them have their own children? A name is no replacement for that.
I don't know if Jeremiah had those desires or not, maybe the Lord simply never gave him those desires to begin with.
But for me, I do have them, and frankly, recommitting my life to Jesus made me more aware of them, not less.
In my late teens and early 20's when i backslid. I didn't think about marriage, and I thought I didn't want children, too much of a hindrance on lifestyle, and marriage? Nah just a desire for sex. Going back to Jesus.. changed a desire for just physical lust and sex, into a desire for love and intimacy with just one woman, because that is what the Lord designed, and it seemed way more beautiful of a concept than I had seen it as before, and made me desire children, even though I know genetically that'd be a very bad idea for me to have.
But this one verse.. shatters everything. Any negative feelings I have towards the Lord, come from this one verse (well and it's parallel in Luke)
If you will ask God for grace to accept His will, you will have a breakthrough that will transform your Christian life. The cross seems painful and great loss. Remember that after death comes new life. Lord Jesus rose again from the dead. That's what is in store for you.
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