What Hope Does God Give Lonely Singles?

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🗓️ 10 February 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Longing for marriage can be a good, God-given desire. But finding a spouse can never replace our primary life’s passion: seeing and savoring Jesus Christ.

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0:00.0	One final time we're joined by Matt Chandler, the lead pastor at the Village Church in Dallas.
0:09.8	Matt is the author of the new book, The Mingling of Souls, God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex,
0:15.4	and Redemption. I have a list of 10 questions on relationships queued up from Matt and we've
0:20.0	worked through all 10 of them. So Matt, we have time for one more question. We receive all the time
0:24.7	in the podcast. I'll throw it in as question number 11. Many Christian singles who do not find
0:30.0	a spouse end up dating non-Christians and compromising themselves. What does Christ have to offer to
0:36.6	a Christian who is tired of the weirdness of Christian dating, who longs to be married,
0:42.4	who is sick of being lonely, who doesn't have any Christian prospects at the moment,
0:47.4	and who isn't getting any younger? What would you say to this listener?
0:52.2	Oh, gosh. Well, a couple of things. First, I want to just, I want to totally affirm the desire
0:57.2	to be married. I just don't, I don't want anybody to ever feel guilty about that desire, because I
1:02.1	feel like so often, particularly single women. God bless them. I just feel like they can get,
1:09.0	you know, find your contentment in Christ. Why, I mean, why is Christ not enough? And I just
1:13.0	think that's such a terrible, terrible response because the desire to get married is a good desire.
1:19.6	Maybe one that's been woven into them by the creator of the universe. If the Bible says he
1:24.9	who finds a wife finds what is good, that's all I need for both the man and the woman to go. This
1:29.9	is a good thing to be desired. If to find it is good, then let's desire it. But like all desires,
1:37.0	they have to be placed where they belong. And so I want to affirm this desire to be married. I
1:43.4	want to warn against loneliness and this desire being a desire that so far up in your list of
1:53.4	desires that you would be willing to compromise and put yourself in a situation that would be far
1:59.3	more horrific and far more lonely than you currently are. And so one of the things that I have
2:05.3	unfortunately been able to watch on repeat the last 20 years of Christian ministry is godly women
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