This week I have been challenged to prayerfully partition the Holy Spirit to come into my heart and to proclaim the subject He has for me to blog about for this week. The original subject came to me thirty years ago. As I recall, the time was around December, 1996. I was preparing for an adult Sunday School lesson from the book, Good News For Single Folk, by Dr. Jeremiah Wright. I remember I was being hindered from developing my outline because I was starting from the wrong premise.

As I poised my pen to cross out yet another sentence for the umpteenth time, I paused. I felt in my spirit someone was calling my name. In a whisper I said, ‘Speak, Lord.’ Immediately, I was led to Luke 19:10:

“…for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

With trepidation, I asked the Holy Spirit what exactly was it that was lost and how does it apply to singles. Again, I was led to read several scriptures in Genesis 3:21-24. There we find all of the provisions and disciplines God administered to ‘fallen’ mankind.

• We were now to be clothed in garments of skin because we had lost our glorified bodies.
• We now knew good from evil, thus we lost our innocence. Therefore we have no excuse.
• Our minds became befuddled and we didn’t know what was good for us. In other words, we lost our freedom of choice.
• Death was ushered in and we lost eternal life.
• We were banished from the Garden and lost our eternal home and all the luxuries that went with it.
• And finally, because of the Guardian Angels with the flaming swords, we lost easy access to the Way.
• God placed stumbling blocks in our paths.

Once again, I humbled myself and asked the Lord what does this have to do with singles? God said to me, Tell the class that because of the acts of the first couple, (Adam and Eve), the sanctity of marriage was also abridged. Divorce and unfaithfulness were imminent. But the good news is Jesus Christ. He is the Bridegroom who would never be unfaithful to his God nor to his Bride.

So, in his communion time with me, Jesus put forth this proposition in a still small voice…’Since married couples are considered single in my Father’s eyes (and the two shall be one), and single people are already single, tell everybody in your Sunday School class to marry me! Let’s elope before you have time to get lost again.’

My special prayer for all my followers…

What good is it, my brothers (and sisters), if (we) claim to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save us? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead (James 2:14, 26).

Dear Heavenly Father, make me prepared not to only ask things of You but also to have the right motives so that my prayer requests will be granted. Amen and Amen.

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