If You Want a Guarantee You Will reach Your Goal On time, Set Your Clock To This - Spiritual Nugget No. 6

    In many states, twice a year, we re-set our clocks. We move them forward one hour in spring and backward one hour in fall. I have heard. different reasons why we do this, but I am not sure I completely understand. What I know for certain, is that this process wrecks my sleep pattern and routine for at least a week.

     When I reflect on God’s eternal clock, I realize there is no need to be anxious when I am waiting for certain events to happen. This is especially useful if I am seeking a life partner. Many of us desire to be married. We believe our life journey will be more complete and fulfilling. Some of us make this a goal and set a timetable or deadline to find a spouse. We become anxious, impatient, and even desperate to find someone to marry.

     When I reflect on God’s eternal clock, I realize there is no need to be anxious when I am waiting for certain events to happen. This is especially useful if I am seeking a life partner. Many of us desire to be married. We believe our life journey will be more complete and fulfilling. Some of us make this a goal and set a timetable or deadline to find a spouse. We become anxious, impatient, and even desperate to find someone to marry.

     With all of this arm twisting, what comes next is nothing short of hunting. An unnatural eagerness, very much like a craving, strolls into the soul. Bars, concerts, singles sites, dating apps, even the church become hunting grounds. I once knew a pastor’s daughter who went to every service to check out the single men who attended church. She successfully snagged a mate, but the marriage eventually went south, and she was back on the market.

     Did I say market? Well, what I am describing is “wistful” dating (shopping). It involves a type of seeking to get or have. This type of dating makes us vulnerable to loss of control, stimulated by physical affection, boiling over into pre-marital sex. The climax to this type of dating is multiple disappointments and emptiness. 

     Wouldn’t you rather have some leverage on finding the life partner who
genuinely loves and cherishes you? Here is the secret:

1. Set your will to God’s eternal time clock for purpose in your life.
2. Go to sleep, and forget your deadline on finding your life partner;
   ​Be patient; Let God’s timing bring you the best.
3. Don’t lower your standards by engaging in sex before marriage. It’s impure, sinful, and will hinder your life relationship by creating a soul tie to a person with whom you previously had premarital sex (flashbacks of the other person). This person is probably not your current spouse. (I Corinthians 6:18, 7:2; Ephesians 5:3)
4. Engagements are important. They set the stage for life together as one flesh (marriage). Engagement helps to establish the right attitudes toward one another, shows you how to give genuine affection for a specific person, and teaches you how to speak words of true love and truth to the person with whom you want to share your life.

     Do you want to spend your life living under a contract which begins with. distrust (a pre-nuptial agreement, dual names), has limited liability, and can be voided (annulment or divorce)? Or would you rather bask in the pleasure of a covenant based upon trust, responsibility, and vows symbolizing the meshing of two lives as one?

     If you make seeking a life partner one of your goals, you are setting yourself up to be controlled by an earthly time clock that can spring forward and look like the real thing, or move backward with a breakup leading back to the drawing board.

​     Spiritual wisdom says dedicate your life to be a channel of Godly love. When you do this, your perfect life partner will spring from the eternal clock of God.

“Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.”
​(Psalm 37:4)

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