October 14, 2007

• singleness and cisterns

  The floodwaters of life-juciness have receded.  They have left positive changes in their wake.  Another cistern has cracked and crumbled beyond repair.  Why am I still trying to fill it?

  To the fountain I must go.  Repeatedly throughout the day, every day until I die, and forever thereafter.  Surrender and trust-in-God cannot be something done only once...  the old desires must be killed as often as they arise... and they must be replaced.

   

  Here are three good articles on singleness.   If you only have time to read one, the first is excellent.

  http://www.cbmw.org/Resources/Articles/The-God-Who-Knows-the-End-of-Your-Singleness

  http://www.cbmw.org/Online-Books/Recovering-Biblical-Manhood-and-Womanhood/For-Single-Men-and-Women-and-the-Rest-of-Us

  http://www.cbmw.org/Journal/Vol-5-No-2/The-Holy-Vocation-of-Singleness

  "Jesus, if this is Your will,
  then YES to being single.
  In my deepest heart, i want to marry,
  to belong to a great man;
  to know that i am linked to his life...
  and he to mine...
  following Christ and our dreams together...
  but You know what i need.
  if i never marry, it is YES to You."
  -- Ann Kiemel Anderson

   

  "Be appalled, O heavens, at this,
  And shudder, be very desolate," declares the Lord.
  "For My people have committed two evils:
  They have forsaken Me,
  The fountain of living waters,
  To hew for themselves cisterns,
  Broken cisterns
  That can hold no water.

  -- Jeremiah 2:12-13

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