(Read Ps. 37: 7, 9.) The word wait means to look for with a view to favourable reception. The word carries with it the suggestion of waiting with patience and confident expectancy.
Except God declares that it is not good for you to be alone in life and in your labour (Ministry), it is better to yet wait for the right partner.
Nobody is permitted to put pressure on you to get marry. Others may all be flying their wedding cards and storming the media with jingles, but it is unwise for you to leap into matrimony because of peer or societal pressure. Remember that you may have a blissful wedding in the company of rich friends but marriage is what you must face privately and personally.
Though marriage is good, yet it can become your graveyard if God has not ordained you to be in it at the time you enter. Untimely marriage is the current reason why many are making great mistake in chosen their marriage partners. The scripture says, and the Lord bring her to the man, Gen. 2: 22. The woman is in the masters hand.
When the Lord has sanction or approved the right time for you to come together, He will bring her into your vision and into your mission in life. Wait for God to do that in his own time and in His own way. While God takes time to bring her up in that way, wait and rest in His great wisdom. What you need is a deep sleep of faith.
The Genesis account stated “…and Adam slept”. Note this firmly: until God brings her into your life, vision, pursuits, mission; you will not succeed any far struggling to drag her into it. When God brings her in by grace, it is quiet, refreshing, energizing and gratifying. But if not, it will be like the marriage of Job. His wife married him because of wealth.
Now that the wealth has deflated, she wanted him to die so she could remarry. Lots wife too is another practical example of the repercussion of wrong marriage. She didn’t buy in her husbands vision. He tried to convince and drag her in, but to no avail. At last, she turned her back on Gods warning and became an example to women who will not take heed to Gods Word.
If I may ask, why are you so eager to get married? If you have a wrong perspective in entering into marriage, then get ready to live a miserable life. Marriage is more than having a desire to lick the lips, stare at a beautiful face, and have a fantastic sex. After marriage, soon the lips will dry and the face will shrink; and as the outward beauty fades and the pocket deflates so your spirit drops down and nothing more to hold or sustain the marriage for a life time.
There is more to marriage in the history of the world than just a mere coming together of two human beings for social or spiritual acceptance, and security. It is a huge responsibility and a lifetime sacrifice based on true love from the soul. Written by Danjuma Iliya.
