Just wondering...
...how the following comment would sound, if it was applied to work instead of marriage?
"So many well meaning blogs are more focused on the societal decay of family than on the idea of God's timing and sovereignty. God knows both who and when I am to marry. I can do absolutely NOTHING to change that plan. I love my life now, God has given me SO many amazing opportunities that are best accomplished as a single woman. I am so excited about the day when I'll be a wife and mother and I'll relish in those opportunities then. But those aren't for me now, and I intend to enjoy it!"
Christian woman on A.N.Other blog (different one this time!)
"So many well meaning blogs are more focused on the societal decay of the work ethic than on the idea of God's timing and sovereignty. God knows both what at and when I am to be employed. I can do absolutely NOTHING to change that plan. I love my life now, God has given me SO many amazing opportunities that are best accomplished while I am unemployed. I am so excited about the day when I'll have a job and I'll relish in those opportunities then. But those aren't for me now, and I intend to enjoy it!"
"So many well meaning blogs are more focused on the societal decay of family than on the idea of God's timing and sovereignty. God knows both who and when I am to marry. I can do absolutely NOTHING to change that plan. I love my life now, God has given me SO many amazing opportunities that are best accomplished as a single woman. I am so excited about the day when I'll be a wife and mother and I'll relish in those opportunities then. But those aren't for me now, and I intend to enjoy it!"
Christian woman on A.N.Other blog (different one this time!)
"So many well meaning blogs are more focused on the societal decay of the work ethic than on the idea of God's timing and sovereignty. God knows both what at and when I am to be employed. I can do absolutely NOTHING to change that plan. I love my life now, God has given me SO many amazing opportunities that are best accomplished while I am unemployed. I am so excited about the day when I'll have a job and I'll relish in those opportunities then. But those aren't for me now, and I intend to enjoy it!"
posted by Captain Sensible at 3:19 PM
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Good point, Captain. But I doubt that writer will read - or "get" it.
What is particularly interesting is the complete assurance that God does indeed have marriage and children in her future, even though there is no Biblical evidence for such a belief. I can only wonder from where she absorbed it.
Maybe she should talk to Carolyn McCulley about the motherhood part in particular - now that Ms. McCulley has reached the age of 44 and is still single, and still waiting for God to drop that man in her life.
Or Michele McKinney Hammond, who has made a career out of writing books about how to be an irresistible woman, yet who apparently didn't apply her concepts to herself, as she is in her late 40's and still unmarried, and now past child-bearing age.
Or she might ask Nancy Leigh DeMoss when that magical man will appear. Yet another "GOS" author who is now past childbearing age...and still waiting.
What's the lesson that these ladies are so blatantly missing? I'm not sure myself what it is, but there has to be one.
Wow, this just makes me sad. Evangelical Christianity has truly jumped off the deep end, spiritualizing marriage and singleness to the point that the logic of those trapped in it would easily feel at home at the Mad Hatter's tea party. We tell pretty lies and write bestselling books to cover up an obvious truth: nearly everyone should marry and have children.
The Emperor really has no clothes on, and the Christians have appropriated Matthew 6:25 to justify situational nakedness.
The lesson these ladies have learnt is that writing books about how to be single does not attract marriage-minded men. Duh!
It's just all so sad, and so unnecessary.
And what happens to the women like the one that wrote the comment in the opening post, as they get older and older and still find themselves single?
The ones that stay in the church, seem to die a slow, lingering death (so much for having life in all its fullness, and being salt and light).
But many others seem to be chosing to leave, becoming angry with God, and even having suicidal thoughts.
And all the while God is being terribly misrepresented.
So wrong.
Captain Sensible, you are so right. If that woman quoted above doesn't get serious about getting married then she could end up like that Louise Janson who writes for the Daily Mail. No husband and no children!
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It never ceases to amaze me how many things in life we tend to boil down to "God's Timing". We've almost made a mantra out of it. What I find especially troubling is the fatalistic overtones the quotes convey, which basically strips away any personal volition leaving one at the mercy of an inflexible timekeeper god that won't budge no matter how much faith we have or how many petitions we pray.
Sad......
The job/husband analogy is great for us folks but GOS advocates will and could find some way to refute this by claiming that potential husbands are animate objects and jobs are inaminate objects. And that we could someday "bump into" a man by chance, who would eventually become our husband, but that we as humans can't "bump into" a job except by asking for an application or filling one out online.
By no means am I defending the answers of GOS people, but this is a potential answer that I suppose would come out of their mouths. I almost think that the GOS spokespeople have an "answer" (or at least think they do) for all the things we are saying right here.
Shazia - You said a possible objection is that "potential husbands are animate objects and jobs are inaminate objects".
Yes, in theory "a job" is not a person. But an employer is! And I have never yet come across a job that didn't involve being hired by a person.
Similarly, we actually could "bump into" our potential empoyer by chatting in a supermarket queue, and discovering that s/he is looking for someone with just our set of skills.
God can work in that way. It's just that He usually chooses not to!
This entire discussion only goes to show how completely and utterly mad some Christians have become.
In comes the super-spirituality.
Out goes the wisdom...
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