Can the Single Life Be a Gift From God?

A believer should instead, ask God what His will for that person’s life should be, wait for the answer, which can come in many different ways, and then try to embrace that will to the best of their ability. This pleases God, and as a result, He blesses that person’s life in numerous, miraculous ways. When a person is blessed by God, he or she feels that blessing, and that love, and there is a tremendous fulfillment that goes along with it. When you do God’s will, you are pleasing Him, and therefore, there is less stress in your life, which leads to a much happier existence.

Nobody likes to be lonely, but we must remember that even married people sometimes get lonely. They may be involved in the happiest marriage in the world, and yet they still get lonely from time to time. This is a normal part of the human condition, created by God in order to draw people toward each other in fellowship with Him. It is not just the single person who gets lonely, except that single believers tend to lean more toward God rather than other people, to experience the ultimate spiritual bonding relationship.

While a marriage partner can be a gift from God, so also can the single life be a gift, given to a select few whom God chooses to fulfill that role. These people quite frequently have a much closer relationship with the Living God than many married people have. The single person can concentrate more closely on his or her faith, the teachings of that faith, and on the personal nature of the God/human relationship. In other words, that person’s best friend is God Himself. No marriage relationship can top that.

Divorce is a rampant disease, a blight on civilization, and the biggest cause of that blight is marrying the wrong person. No matter how hard you try to make the relationship work, it is tarnished from the very beginning, and often does not get any better with the passage of time. The proper match, however, starts brilliantly and only gets better as time goes by. This is how life-long marriages are made….in Heaven. The single person is also perfectly matched, paired up with God in a very close personal friendship that grows better and closer with time. This is why single people who know the Lord as their Savior, are usually just as happy as the happiest married couple.

There really are people who are designed by God to NOT be particularly social with other people. They are very quiet and introverted, yet they maintain a happy, healthy lifestyle, and are psychologically healthy as well. It would seem that the more inward a person is, the more closely drawn he or she is to God, because God lives within His believers. Our bodies are His temple. That does not mean that believers are gods, that is a false teaching, and an abomination in the eyes of God, but what it really means, is that when we don’t draw closer to other people, we have all the time in the world, to embrace God, and fewer distractions to keep us from that goal.

Yes, the single life can be just as much a gift from God as a marriage relationship can be. It is all in our perspective of this gift. If we start thinking of singleness not as a curse, but as a blessing, it will begin to be just that. God knows what He is doing, and He picks the perfect people to be single. He blesses the married life and the single life equally, so we really need to revamp our personal beliefs regarding singleness, because it really is not a curse. It is a genuine heartfelt and wonderful gift from God.