I found this while doing some YouTube surfing sometime ago.
How can I long to be married without obsessing about it?
John Piper has an awesome habit of giving amazing practical advice to people who are in situations where they are in desperate need of guidance and wisdom. This is no exception. Relationships (in particular, marriage) is an amazing way to glorify God and live out the amazing narrative of the gospel in a practical manner. I desire to be married myself someday, in the not TOO distant future hopefully!
Keeping desires such as these in check can be challenging. I often find myself struggling to keep them under control, having them at the forefront of my mind which is not the place I want them to be whatsoever.
In this video, Piper explains how our hearts, like Blaise Pascal famously once said, have a void within them that is designed to be filled with God. So when we begin obsessing about these desires that we have in our hearts, they can be because of gaps in our hearts that are supposed to be filled with unquenchable passion to know God. We will always fall short in our love for the Father because we do remain fallen humans in the hands of a loving, merciful God, and it is at these times when we can continue to fall away from him in our pursuit for our other desires.
"Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday." - Psalm 37:4, 5
Search for your delight first and foremost in the Lord of our salvation, and then through that relationship, He will purify your desires and conform them to His will.
This is really challenging and awesome. Wanting to be married is something I struggle with a lot as well
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