I believe God made me the way I am for a reason yet not sure what that reason is but I will know someday.
And so I looked up some of your other posts so I can see what you mean.
As my user name states, I am content that I will be celibate for life and don't intend to be in a romantic relationship (never have in my life) with the opposite gender. I have been single this long and don't want to break my commitment I made with God many years ago to stay single and give Him my all.
Ok, so this is a commitment of you with God.
I am not the marriage type.
Well, if we are with God, we will grow and develop into people much different than how we are now. But if God wants this commitment, amen. But, even so, you will grow in Jesus and discover how God is able to use your commitment; it will not be only about your preferences, but we discover how God creates more and better than we can plan and arrange, now. In the process of Him preparing us for all He desires with us, things will change in us > for one possible example, in your case >
I feel that my music preferences have changed since my 20s and early 30s.
Your preferences can grow. And how we relate with people can develop > God does want us to become able to relate well in love with any and all people, especially whoever is God's way, all ages. Because God's love is all-loving. And He has various scriptures about how our Father wants us to share as His family. I will offer a few scriptures that I would say have helped me a lot, so I am ready for love with any person >
"submitting to one another in the fear of God." (Ephesians 5:21)
"Do all things without complaining and disputing," (Philippians 2:14)
"swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath" (in ames 1:19-20)
"Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you." (Ephesians 4:31-32)
"nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock." (1 Peter 5:3) I am not in any way to try to lord myself over anyone, I see this means. But trust God to bless people to do things so it is good for them with God, and use my good example however He pleases
I am content having no kids of my own. I am currently single never married and don't plan too.
But we need to know how to love children, and always we are their example while we are with them. Plus, we can help people who have children. God
"gives us richly all things to enjoy," we have in 1 Timothy 6:17. While we may be enjoying being celibate, we also enjoy how others are blessed in marriage and blessed to have children; because we are family in Jesus, we love one another as ourselves and so we enjoy and appreciate how one another is blessed, even while we ourselves might not have the same blessings.
I don't have the time or the money and plus I am a introvert.
Well, you don't have to have money, to love someone and share with each other. Plus, you do not know how God will develop and mature your personality > all of us are being conformed to the image of Jesus, right?
"For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." (Romans 8:29)
And you can see how Jesus related with women. I would say Jesus had very special relationships with certain women . . . women who knew how to relate with Jesus. And according to my experience of God's love, those relationships were better than romantic, and better intimate than marriage. So, I mean I think that celibate men and women can do very well with each other, and can have better relationships than married couples; because they are not hooked on things they might try to use each other to get
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"I will not be brought under the power of any," our Apostle Paul does say, in 1 Corinthians 6:12.
Have any of you done a no spend day, week month or even year?
If you go on a "spending fast" for "nonessentials", this might help you get more with God so you can not be hooked on,
"brought under the power of", anything which is for pleasure and convenience. And so it can be easier to love someone, without thinking about how you want to use and control him or her.
And instead, in God's love we can be creative
But this works for celibates who know how to love. To celibate guys, I would say be careful about getting isolated with a person who you know wants to get married; but stay where there are other people. And to celibate ladies, I would say, yes be very careful not to let a man steer you to be alone with him. Even so, there were times when Jesus was alone with certain women, not always ones who were mature and honorable. But Jesus had control of things.
Plus, in my opinion > in God's love personality we become the best of being introverted but also extroverted . . . depending on what is good at any time
We give ourselves to God unconditionally, so we do not decide what will be our personality. Or else, we could be "married" to our own selves, and this would not be celibate . . . in my case, in any case! I need to discover how Jesus has me becoming.
I don't stream or watch cable TV because I would like better control on what is playing on my tv.
I got a DVD player built in to my tv and I have a DVD com as well. I borrow cd's and dvd's from my local library here in my city.
So, you know you can do things outside of how this world has things rigged. And, like this, in your socializing you can find out how to be blessed with both men and women. You do not need to let anyone control you about how you share, and if you have to have money or not
Love is freely giving >
"Freely you have received, freely give." (in Matthew 10:8)
And whenever you discover a person does not know how to love, God is trusting you to be a good example for him or her. Always be ready for love; in prayer prepare