Ok so this chapter is definitely a chapter for college students. It’s pretty much all about sexual immorality and marriage. There are many ways to make it awkward and to offend people, so I’m just going to stick with the facts and present the truth in love.
Let me sum up the first few verses and say that sex belongs to married couples…period. Also let me say that married couples commit to spending the rest of their lives with each other…period. Now that these two facts are undoubtedly clear, let me move on to what is probably going to be the most beneficial part of this blog for everyone.
Verse 27 states, “Are you pledged to a woman? Do not seek to be released. Are you free from such a commitment? Do not look for a wife.” Now hold on a second is Paul seriously telling us to never ever get married? No he is not, but what he is saying is essentially enjoy single life. Verses 32 and 33 say that, “I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs-how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world-how he can please his wife-and his interests are divided.”
I think everyone wants to be married at some point, but unless you are satisfied with Jesus Christ, your life will be messed up. C.S. Lewis put it best when he said, “You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” Your physical desires are important, but unless your spirit is satisfied with Jesus, you will never be happy.
If you are married or engaged like at least half of flood it seems like, God bless you. But if you are not even in a relationship you don’t have to have someone. Look for opportunities to please God before you look for opportunities to get the attention of that random hot girl or guy across the room.
Love,
Zack
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Jesus has a good plan for each and every one of us (Jeremiah 29:11). The thing that we must remember is to not compare ourselves to other believers because each one of us are a different part of the body (1 Corinthians 12:14;18) and has a different gift (1 Corinthians 7:7). There are people that only you can reach. If we were all the same, then somebody may go to hell because they could not be reached. But one thing that each part of the body has in common in that we are all called to preach the gospel to everybody and make disciples our of them (Matthew 28:19). How we preach it and from where we preach it is how it differs. His plan for you may be to have one career while another has a different on, but no matter what the career, you are a part of the body and are important.
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