Questions to Single Christians

[GospelS]

In 1 Corinthians 7, the Bible tells that the unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married man's interests are divided. And to those who deal with the world, the scripture further tells to live as though they had no dealings with it.

As a single person, in Christ,
- How true and to what extent does this verse apply to your life?
- How are you using your singleness to be more anxious about the things of the Lord?
- How are you using your singleness to please the Lord?
- How are you using your singleness to be holy in body and spirit, pure and undefiled?
- How are you living as though you had no dealings with the things of the world?
- How focused are you on having an undivided devotion to the Lord?
- How are you keeping yourself unstained from the world?
- How sure are you that your life reflects what has been said in the above verse?
- What things are you allowing your daily life to consume? What are you making of the God given time and resources?
- What things of the world do you still find pleasure in and live as though you had dealings with it? How is that helping your spiritual walk and for the glory of God?

Please answer to the Lord. You may choose to answer here as well. Thank you.

 

[bèlla]

Nice thread.

How true and to what extent does this verse apply to your life?

I feel a deep conviction to fulfill my calling and accomplish His will. But I wouldn’t describe it as “anxious” in the guise we use the term today. Nevertheless, I agree that romantic attachments present considerations that aren’t of consequence when we’re alone.

How are you using your singleness to be more anxious about the things of the Lord?

Through digital entrepreneurship, study and preparation for a career in fashion design, and personal development for writing and speaking opportunities that minister to women.

How are you using your singleness to please the Lord?

Emotional and spiritual support for friends and family. Business and life coaching for aspiring entrepreneurs. Motivation and encouragement for business associates.

How are you using your singleness to be holy in body and spirit, pure and undefiled?

Maintaining the eating guidelines He’s given. Procuring food and healthy resources from local farmers and merchants. Supporting my daughter’s wellness training and providing access to herbal studies for alternatives to traditional medicine. Spending time with Him and being a light to those I encounter.

How are you living as though you had no dealings with the things of the world?

Forming intentional connections with Christian entrepreneurs. Participating in a business mastermind where ethics and sharing are practiced. Joining a community of like-minded women (largely Christian) which emphasizes personal development, self-care, homemaking, and accountability.

How focused are you on having an undivided devotion to the Lord?

By ratifying my commitment to Him everyday in word and deed.

How are you keeping yourself unstained from the world? How sure are you that your life reflects what has been said in the above verse?

Being discerning with reading and viewing materials. Abstaining from mindless activities. Using my time for growth, improvement, education, and increasing my cultural aptitude. I subscribe to multiple services and programming which feed the mind and spirit and opt for wholesome entertainment like opera and theater in the place of mainstream options. I see many parallels with my life and the woman mentioned in Proverbs 31. Much like her, there are many seasons. I hope my ending results in a spouse who proclaims the same.

What things of the world do you still find pleasure in and live as though you had dealings with it? How is that helping your spiritual walk? What are you doing about it?

I enjoy entertaining and attending social and charitable events for good causes. I love traveling and experiencing different cultures and discovering them through documentaries and books.

I have a passion for fashion design and the expertise required to bring a concept to fruition. I’m developing my sewing and patternmaking skills and helping women improve their appearance through image consulting, coaching, and sewing challenges.

I delight in homemaking and interior design. Beautifying my environment adds a calming influence to the space and added comfort.

I love cooking, baking, canning, and making things from scratch. I felt a great kinship with ladies of old and studied their methods of household management. What I learned has come in handy and allowed me to obtain goods and services at prices well beneath the published rates.

I like organizing and developed a penchant for planning. I still have areas of improvement but my efforts have paid off and I appreciate the benefit of orderliness.

Overall, I’ve tried to craft a life that’s pleasing and a positive reflection of my faith and ladyship. The question I confront is whether my behavior and alliances are aiding my calling or derailing the mission?

Sometimes the answers require difficult decisions, reconsiderations, or parting ways. But there is nothing I’ve set aside for His purpose that He hasn’t returned many times over.

There is an equal satisfaction in knowing my time was well spent. And when my beloved asks what I’ve done while waiting for him. I needn’t be ashamed. I can show him the words, work, and prayers. A tapestry of faith that’s ever blooming.

~Bella

 

[Quietus]

In 1 Corinthians 7, the Bible tells that the unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married man's interests are divided. And to those who deal with the world, the scripture further tells to live as though they had no dealings with it.

As a single person, in Christ,
How true and to what extent does this verse apply to your life?
How are you using your singleness to be more anxious about the things of the Lord?
How are you using your singleness to please the Lord?
How are you using your singleness to be holy in body and spirit, pure and undefiled?
How are you living as though you had no dealings with the things of the world?
How focused are you on having an undivided devotion to the Lord?
How are you keeping yourself unstained from the world?
How sure are you that your life reflects what has been said in the above verse?
What things are you allowing your daily life to consume?
What things of the world do you still find pleasure in and live as though you had dealings with it? How is that helping your spiritual walk and for the glory of God?

I'm not asking these. Please answer to the Lord. You may choose to answer here as well. Thank you.

I’d love to sit here and say that I strive towards piety, and living a penitent, charitable, holy life, perhaps similar to those ancient Christian dwellers of the deserts, but that isn’t the case. I struggle with my flesh nature, and every single day is a battle in my mind to choose the things of God, over the things of the enemy.

While I am anxious about the things of the Lord, and pleasing Him, I do engage in some worldly entertainment, and justify it with the excuses of boredom, or needing to escape the stress of my existence.

I am celibate, but I struggle with lust imagination from time to time. I am working on abstaining from anger, among other things, praying daily for heart purification. I will continue to read scripture, spiritual books, listen to edifying sermons by trusted preachers, and pursue deeper communion with God.

Right now, I liken myself to a rugged mound of clay, shapeless in nature, that is constantly having bits of it torn off, and being rubbed into smoother bits and molded in other places. I am far from where I should be, but trying daily to trust in God that He will get me where He wants me. It’s not what I do in my flesh to craft some righteous life, it’s Him working through me to make that life happen.

 

[Ivan Hlavanda]

In 1 Corinthians 7, the Bible tells that the unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married man's interests are divided. And to those who deal with the world, the scripture further tells to live as though they had no dealings with it.

As a single person, in Christ,
- How true and to what extent does this verse apply to your life?
- How are you using your singleness to be more anxious about the things of the Lord?
- How are you using your singleness to please the Lord?
- How are you using your singleness to be holy in body and spirit, pure and undefiled?
- How are you living as though you had no dealings with the things of the world?
- How focused are you on having an undivided devotion to the Lord?
- How are you keeping yourself unstained from the world?
- How sure are you that your life reflects what has been said in the above verse?
- What things are you allowing your daily life to consume? What are you making of the God given time and resources?
- What things of the world do you still find pleasure in and live as though you had dealings with it? How is that helping your spiritual walk and for the glory of God?

Please answer to the Lord. You may choose to answer here as well. Thank you.

I don't think it makes a difference if you are single or married and neither it should. I do understand that married people are much busier of course, but even the married must prioritise God in their life. That doesn't mean they don't for example help their children when they are injured and say not now I am praying to God. God must be your biggest love in life whether you are married or not. Now I don't know how married do that, they must love God more than their families, but I do know that the Holy Spirit will make them. For us it is impossible to love God but the Holy Spirit will shape us. Remember when you first time read the gospels? I do, and everything I read about the characteristic of a Christian I thought it's impossible and it is, for me, but the Holy Spirit will shape me to be a Christian like the bible describes. And I can already see the works of the Spirit.

So what's my point. That no matter your state or busy life you should always hunger after righteousness. But we don't even know how to do this. You can have all the time in world and read the bible 70 times in your life and still learn nothing if the Spirit doesn't open you eyes. So in sense it doesn't matter whether you are single or married, busy or not busy, because it makes no difference. If you don't have the Spirit, you will not even know what to do, you will not even know that you need to change that the essence of Christianity is to resemble Christ. Heck you won't even comprehend what I am writing now because you don't have the Spirit.

If you have the Spirit, you can be the busiest person in the world, yet you will always find the time to pray, to meditate etc. Of course in our sinful flesh it is not possible because the flesh is always making excuses of not having a Christian life, of not praying of not studying, the sin is pulling you away from it, but the Holy Spirit that dwells in you will always pull you back, because that's the job of the Spirit. And you never have enough of it, you constantly need more, the Spirit will make you hunger after righteousness and fill you at the same time...so you can hunger more so you can be filled more.

So what I am saying? That if you have the Spirit, and the Spirit will let you know if you do, it doesn't matter what your life is, the Spirit is the to remind you, to teach you, to shape you. And can you lose this? Absolutely not. For once you have the Spirit, you are sealed by it forever.

 

[com7fy8]

In 1 Corinthians 7, the Bible tells that the unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married man's interests are divided.

Hi Let's have a reunion with this scripture >

"But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord---how he may please the Lord. But he who is married cares about the things of the world---how he may please his wife." (1 Corinthians 7:32-33)

Even so, in comparing marriage and celibacy, Paul says >

"For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that." (1 Corinthians 7:7)

So, Paul is saying each of us has our own gift. He says this in comparing celibacy with holy matrimony. From this scripture I see Paul means that celibacy is a "gift", plus holy matrimony is a "gift". Each, then, in Jesus, is a gift of the Holy Spirit. However, one gift of God can be better than another, as we can see from 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14.

And each gift of God can minister God's own grace > 1 Peter 4:9-10. And a gift can specialize in some love ministry. Celibacy, in my opinion, is the helper of our First Love Commandment to love God with all we've got. And holy matrimony is the helpmate gift for our Second Love Commandment to love others as well as we care about our own selves. In marriage, then, a couple is in a research laboratory for making breakthrough discoveries in how to love in an intimate family relationship; and these married couples can help minister to celibates to help celibates learn and mature in how to relate with other children of God and sinners . . . while the celibate can minister grace of his or her gift to help couples get more undistracted with God while also doing better in their relating with each other.

So, we all need each other.

And our Apostle Paul says a pastor needs to be a family man who is "blameless" . . . 1 Timothy 3:1-14 . . . how you become as you are more and more devoted to God, like a celibate, but also how you become in relating more maturely with other people.

Plus, the man needs to be proven in his own home, to show he is able to rule people in our Father's family caring and sharing way. So, of course, then, his wife has helped him to get more real with God plus to discover how to rule his home . . . so now they can take care of God's people in the same family caring and sharing way . . . once they have matured in being devoted to the Lord while also learning how to do well in marriage.

After all, God's grace grows us "in all things" > Ephesians 4:15 > so we are not limited forever to only celibacy or marriage > but in God's one love we grow in the best of everything. And so, then the "blameless" man is able to pastor celibates and married couples and single people who are on their way to marriage.

And my opinion is we can see in 1 Corinthians 7, how Paul has this vision for where either gift can take a person. He does say . . . to husbands he knows can be distracted >

"even those who have wives should be as though they had none" . . . in 1 Corinthians 7:29.

So, I see how Paul understands that people can start with a gift, but then they grow and develop to be capable of more and better. Because each gift is not limited to only effecting outward lifestyle and circumstances, but in our character a gift's grace is God richly adoptively creating excellence of Jesus growing in us as our new inner Person. And Jesus in us shares with us how He is submissive to and so pleasing to our Father, while also Jesus our Groom makes us able to do well in marriage and other family caring and sharing as God's children.

 

[GospelS]

I don't think it makes a difference if you are single or married and neither it should. I do understand that married people are much busier of course, but even the married must prioritise God in their life. That doesn't mean they don't for example help their children when they are injured and say not now I am praying to God. God must be your biggest love in life whether you are married or not. Now I don't know how married do that, they must love God more than their families, but I do know that the Holy Spirit will make them. For us it is impossible to love God but the Holy Spirit will shape us. Remember when you first time read the gospels? I do, and everything I read about the characteristic of a Christian I thought it's impossible and it is, for me, but the Holy Spirit will shape me to be a Christian like the bible describes. And I can already see the works of the Spirit.

So what's my point. That no matter your state or busy life you should always hunger after righteousness. But we don't even know how to do this. You can have all the time in world and read the bible 70 times in your life and still learn nothing if the Spirit doesn't open you eyes. So in sense it doesn't matter whether you are single or married, busy or not busy, because it makes no difference. If you don't have the Spirit, you will not even know what to do, you will not even know that you need to change that the essence of Christianity is to resemble Christ. Heck you won't even comprehend what I am writing now because you don't have the Spirit.

If you have the Spirit, you can be the busiest person in the world, yet you will always find the time to pray, to meditate etc. Of course in our sinful flesh it is not possible because the flesh is always making excuses of not having a Christian life, of not praying of not studying, the sin is pulling you away from it, but the Holy Spirit that dwells in you will always pull you back, because that's the job of the Spirit. And you never have enough of it, you constantly need more, the Spirit will make you hunger after righteousness and fill you at the same time...so you can hunger more so you can be filled more.

So what I am saying? That if you have the Spirit, and the Spirit will let you know if you do, it doesn't matter what your life is, the Spirit is the to remind you, to teach you, to shape you. And can you lose this? Absolutely not. For once you have the Spirit, you are sealed by it forever.

Hi Let's have a reunion with this scripture >

"But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord---how he may please the Lord. But he who is married cares about the things of the world---how he may please his wife." (1 Corinthians 7:32-33)

Even so, in comparing marriage and celibacy, Paul says >

"For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that." (1 Corinthians 7:7)

So, Paul is saying each of us has our own gift. He says this in comparing celibacy with holy matrimony. From this scripture I see Paul means that celibacy is a "gift", plus holy matrimony is a "gift". Each, then, in Jesus, is a gift of the Holy Spirit. However, one gift of God can be better than another, as we can see from 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14.

And each gift of God can minister God's own grace > 1 Peter 4:9-10. And a gift can specialize in some love ministry. Celibacy, in my opinion, is the helper of our First Love Commandment to love God with all we've got. And holy matrimony is the helpmate gift for our Second Love Commandment to love others as well as we care about our own selves. In marriage, then, a couple is in a research laboratory for making breakthrough discoveries in how to love in an intimate family relationship; and these married couples can help minister to celibates to help celibates learn and mature in how to relate with other children of God and sinners . . . while the celibate can minister grace of his or her gift to help couples get more undistracted with God while also doing better in their relating with each other.

So, we all need each other.

And our Apostle Paul says a pastor needs to be a family man who is "blameless" . . . 1 Timothy 3:1-14 . . . how you become as you are more and more devoted to God, like a celibate, but also how you become in relating more maturely with other people.

Plus, the man needs to be proven in his own home, to show he is able to rule people in our Father's family caring and sharing way. So, of course, then, his wife has helped him to get more real with God plus to discover how to rule his home . . . so now they can take care of God's people in the same family caring and sharing way . . . once they have matured in being devoted to the Lord while also learning how to do well in marriage.

After all, God's grace grows us "in all things" > Ephesians 4:15 > so we are not limited forever to only celibacy or marriage > but in God's one love we grow in the best of everything. And so, then the "blameless" man is able to pastor celibates and married couples and single people who are on their way to marriage.

And my opinion is we can see in 1 Corinthians 7, how Paul has this vision for where either gift can take a person. He does say . . . to husbands he knows can be distracted >

"even those who have wives should be as though they had none" . . . in 1 Corinthians 7:29.

So, I see how Paul understands that people can start with a gift, but then they grow and develop to be capable of more and better. Because each gift is not limited to only effecting outward lifestyle and circumstances, but in our character grace is God richly adoptively creating excellence of Jesus growing in us as our new inner Person. And Jesus in us is able to do well in pleasing our Father and sharing in family caring and sharing love with us as our Groom.

Thanks for sharing. Just a friendly note. I agree with you. My questions are more pointed though. I’m specifically suggesting single Christians to ask these questions and answer them for themselves and to God. I appreciate if you can answer them here like the second poster (post #2) did.

 

[Ivan Hlavanda]

Thanks for sharing. Just a friendly note. I agree with you. My questions are more pointed though. I’m specifically suggesting single Christians to ask these questions and answer them for themselves and to God. I appreciate if you can answer them here like the second poster (#2) did.

Alright, I thought I kind of answered that, none of the less.

Q:How true and to what extent does this verse apply to your life?
A: Well to me it's absolutely irrelevant if I am single or not. Of course I have much more time to be in presence of God and do things that please Him, but only because I have the Spirit. Even now when I am home and under the quarantine and I have whole day to my self, the sin in my flesh tries to distract me with everything but Christianity that the Spirit has to drag me to read the bible and to listen to sermons . So yes if you have the Spirit it is good you have hours pf spare time, the Spirit can do more works in you, but it doesn't mean it will. Remember God is the Gardened, Jesus is the Vine and we are only a mere branch that God needs to pull out from the dead Vine of the Earth to only living Vine of Jesus Christ, and the fruit is produced is love, it is the Spirit. And God knows much fruit He wants to have from you. If he wants to have only a bit of fruit it doesn't matter how much free time you have etc. only God knows how much fruit He wants from you so in this sense it is irrelevant to be single, but rather how much of work the Spirit does in you. I don't know if this is the answer you are looking for but this is it.

Q:How are you using your singleness to be more anxious about the things of the Lord?
A: I don't. I desire to have a family so much that it really hurts. Like I am happy seeing people getting married, but I do envy them. But this does make me realise that it is impossible of me to have a family because of my strong desire unless it is a will of God. Again this answer doesn't help anyone single but that is the truth, I desire to have a family so much. Maybe that's why I don't have one, maybe I am looking for it and don't depend on God...or maybe God knows that if I had a family because of my character I would get distract of them. I don't know.

Q:How are you using your singleness to please the Lord?
A: That I am not tempted to do the things I was doing when I was in a relationship in the past. Again the problem is this that if it wasn't for the works of the Holy Spirit, I would still be tempted and desire things no Christians should desire even when I'm single.

Q:How are you using your singleness to be holy in body and spirit, pure and undefiled?
A: I am not, it's the Holy Spirit in me that does everything, I do nothing on my own. If it was upto my sinful flesh I would waste my whole day watching random youtube videos.

Q: How are you living as though you had no dealings with the things of the world?
A: I don't watch any news or anything. But I do realise single person has less responsibilities. I guess if I was married I would be naturally more involved with what's going on because there would be two of us so maybe I'd be more worried?

Q: How focused are you on having an undivided devotion to the Lord?
A: I am more focused of course, but not because I am single but because the Spirit is in me. Therefore even if I was married I would be more focused with the Spirit than single without the Spirit. Of course the spirit uses the fact that I am single and thus have more time and thus the Spirit uses it for more work.

Q: How are you keeping yourself unstained from the world?
A: I don't the Spirit does it. I naturally like gossip and bad news and I am drawn to it. I am a horrible person in my sinful flesh which constantly wants me to go away from God. Thanks God for the Spirit, that it is no longer possible to turn my back on God because the Spirit won't allow it.

Q: How sure are you that your life reflects what has been said in the above verse?
A: I think I already answered that pretty clearly

Q:What things are you allowing your daily life to consume? What are you making of the God given time and resources?
A: Me nothing, the Spirit however makes me good 4 hours of day studying and teaching me the gospels, and shapes me more and more into an image of Christ.

Q: What things of the world do you still find pleasure in and live as though you had dealings with it? How is that helping your spiritual walk and for the glory of God?
A: I still have my desires. Desires that I fight with all the time. And the fight is so big it drains my life. Desiring having a relationship is one. Maybe that's just it, perhaps I do desire family more than God so I don't have one, or that's just satan deceiving me into loving something more than God. But I now this, I love Jesus more than my-self and currently love Jesus more than all. Another desire I still have is maybe show boating to others, forgetting who I was as a non-Christian. I need more humility in this.

I know this is maybe not what you are looking for or you ask. But the fact is that I do nothing, it makes no difference that I am single, but it does make a difference for the Spirit, maybe the Spirit is using the fact that I am single for God's fruit to manifest.

 

[com7fy8]

As a single person, in Christ,
- How true and to what extent does this verse apply to your life?
- How are you using your singleness to be more anxious about the things of the Lord?
- How are you using your singleness to please the Lord?
- How are you using your singleness to be holy in body and spirit, pure and undefiled?
- How are you living as though you had no dealings with the things of the world?
- How focused are you on having an undivided devotion to the Lord?
- How are you keeping yourself unstained from the world?
- How sure are you that your life reflects what has been said in the above verse?
- What things are you allowing your daily life to consume? What are you making of the God given time and resources?
- What things of the world do you still find pleasure in and live as though you had dealings with it? How is that helping your spiritual walk and for the glory of God?

Hi Let's have a reunion with this scripture >

"But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord---how he may please the Lord. But he who is married cares about the things of the world---how he may please his wife." (1 Corinthians 7:32-33)

Your questions and scripture reference have to do with if we live without being distracted from the Lord. And how do we live without distraction from Jesus?

My simple answer to this is >

When I first wake up, I do well to be still and wait while God makes me submissive and attentive to Him; depend on how God is able to make me the way He wants, before I even start to do anything . . . to think, to react, to plan . . . anything.

And so this means > submit to howsoever He rules me in His peace.

"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)

Go only with how He guides my attention in this peace. And see how He has me seeing things and people . . . the way His peace has me seeing people and things. And do what He has me doing about things and in relating with people. And care in prayer in this peace, for any and all people.

And however I might fail in this, put myself on time out, right away, and trust Him to reset and restart and retune me with Him.

The above is my basic answer to most of your questions. Below are more practical questions >

- What things are you allowing your daily life to consume? What are you making of the God given time and resources?

I pray and stay isolated so I don't help to kill anyone with the coronavirus. I exercise and eat, might go out for a walk. And we share here in Christian Forums, and I research the COVID-19 thing and directives of authorities. And sometimes I visit my lady friend and a guy I helped to trust in Jesus, but I keep social distance. And there is shopping.

- What things of the world do you still find pleasure in and live as though you had dealings with it? How is that helping your spiritual walk and for the glory of God?

Nothing, really; but I can give in to immoral fantasizing and watching sports and violent movies and self-righteously criticizing people; but I would not say I am committed to these things, like I used to be, but they are more like object lessons to show how I and others can miss out on sharing with God and our Jesus family people.

 

[mikeforjesus]

In 1 Corinthians 7, the Bible tells that the unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married man's interests are divided. And to those who deal with the world, the scripture further tells to live as though they had no dealings with it.


As a single person, in Christ,

- How true and to what extent does this verse apply to your life?


Right now I think it is true that I have a lot of free time to read the bible and books like purpose driven life but I don’t have a serious commitment yet to be holy in body and spirit except for avoiding sin I mean to serve God. I wonder if I could actually be a useful servant I have to test first if I can find the way of the Lord


- How are you using your singleness to be more anxious about the things of the Lord?


Reading bible reading books and Christian websites watching YouTube videos

Trying to find out what God wills for me


- How are you using your singleness to please the Lord?


Finding out what I can do to serve God and gaining knowledge as it is said delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart


- How are you using your singleness to be holy in body and spirit, pure and undefiled?


By fearing God mostly by prayer and reading the word



- How are you living as though you had no dealings with the things of the world?


I try only to be thinking of the Lord but if I have a break I try not to have my heart in it but just to come back to be refreshed


- How focused are you on having an undivided devotion to the Lord?


I try not to get lazy but I am not getting as far as I like


- How are you keeping yourself unstained from the world?


By reading bible and thinking about consequences and benefits of not sinning


- How sure are you that your life reflects what has been said in the above verse?


I am only beginning I hope to continue


- What things are you allowing your daily life to consume? What are you making of the God given time and resources?


I sleep a lot and most the time ponder if I am ready to put in much effort or will find the means to serve God



- What things of the world do you still find pleasure in and live as though you had dealings with it? How is that helping your spiritual walk and for the glory of God?


I sometimes try to revisit things I bought in the past and old ambitions of the past I wonder if they have any value but sometimes see them as a distraction but I may consider it for a small break if it may help me not burn out and do some good

 

[TLSITD]

In 1 Corinthians 7, the Bible tells that the unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married man's interests are divided. And to those who deal with the world, the scripture further tells to live as though they had no dealings with it.

As a single person, in Christ,
- How true and to what extent does this verse apply to your life?
- How are you using your singleness to be more anxious about the things of the Lord?
- How are you using your singleness to please the Lord?
- How are you using your singleness to be holy in body and spirit, pure and undefiled?
- How are you living as though you had no dealings with the things of the world?
- How focused are you on having an undivided devotion to the Lord?
- How are you keeping yourself unstained from the world?
- How sure are you that your life reflects what has been said in the above verse?
- What things are you allowing your daily life to consume? What are you making of the God given time and resources?
- What things of the world do you still find pleasure in and live as though you had dealings with it? How is that helping your spiritual walk and for the glory of God?

Please answer to the Lord. You may choose to answer here as well. Thank you.

Excellent post. A good reminder of God's desire and purpose for the unmarried.

 

[GospelS]

Excellent post. A good reminder of God's desire and purpose for the unmarried.

Thank you . Praise be to God.

 

[GospelS]

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