Does that sound puzzling, the Single’s advantage in marriage? I hope so. My aim is to get us thinking about the advantages our time being single gives us advantages for the benefit of marriage. Everybody is destined to be single. EVERYBODY. Most singles experience desires for a marital companion. Desiring to not be alone is a holy desire God Himself stirred in the first man who stands as a blueprint for the rest of humanity. The Genesis 2 story shows us the divine set up of desire stirred by God and God’s provision for it in Eve. God provides for the desires we share with Him. Simple math, right?

Without an undistracted time of intimate relationship with Christ taking the lead our capacity to trust Him in our future marriages will be so small.

It’s THAT Month. Oh, you know… Valentine’s Day is coming for us again. We have a single friend who posts annually on social media, “Happy Single’s Awareness Day!” in response to all the romantic coupling being paraded in front of him for 24 hours straight. His angst echoes Adam’s experience in the garden, all the coupled creatures passing him by, stirring in him a new desire, a desire for a companion just right for him.

November 14th, 2022, I [Kim] saw in my spirit our Father God strolling through the Garden of our beginnings. He was experiencing a grief of sorts.