No More Marriage

This may be strange, but this is what I’ve been thinking about lately. Most people my age who are single long for the day when they get to get married, and although I’ve been in that place and completely understand what it is like to be in that place, I don’t long for that day. Don’t get me wrong, if the Lord decides to bless me with a partner who I enjoy and I get to work with and walk through life with, fantastic; I will take it and thank Him every day. But that’s not the longing of my heart.

Jesus is the longing of my heart and to be with Him where He is, is what I want more than anything else.

However, there is something else I am looking forward to as well as seeing His face. Not the day of my marriage, but the Day when there is no more marriage. Yeah, I’m weird, I know.

No, here it is. Both my best friend and I have, in the past, found ourselves in situations where we have good guy friends. These are guys we have spent a lot of time with, talking to, hanging out with, cooking with, going places with. They are just friends (at least in our eyes), that’s all we want from them, and we truly value their friendship. Then, the guy becomes interested in a girl, inevitably begins thinking about a relationship with her, including the possibility of marriage, and everything changes. And that is the struggle. We know from that point on our friendships with them will change, and then we have to walk through it. It’s a challenge from the beginning knowing that we will not be able to spend as much time with them or talk with them to the same degree, knowing that the closeness we once shared will no longer be. Yeah, it’s a struggle, but that is the nature of human relationships.

And that makes me excited about heavenly relationships and the Day there is no more marriage.

Honestly, I don’t know what it will be like on that Day, after the last trumpet sounds and the beautiful City comes down out of Heaven. I don’t know what relationships will be like, but I imagine, in a place where we know there is no more sorrow, crying or pain, they will be glorious. When we are completely satisfied in Him, I think our friendships will be so pure and unadulterated, most certainly to a degree that we cannot imagine now. And I can't wait for that. Oh, and also,  I can't wait to have my own mansion, eat all the chocolate I want, and have the ability to translate from place to place in simply a moment. Yeah, I am looking forward to all of that!