Is not the search for a "mate" one of the most anxiety-producing priorities of the human soul? From television series to executive boardrooms to the bathroom and the bedroom closet, "the quest" occupies a considerable portion of our personal energy budgets. Here are a few suggestions, perhaps they should be called "The Ten Suggestions" on how not to meet and marry that special person:
1) Book a cabin on a "Singles" cruise ship to the Bahamas
2) Go to a singles Bar
3) Have a search plan for your "Soul-mate" and really strive to reach your goal
4) Write your favorite Celebrity Actor-Columnist-Guru and get some advice
5) Hang out with the "In-Crowd"!
6) Post a photo/profile on Facebook
7) Have your palm-fortune read, and of course consult your horoscope
8) Sign-up with an on-line dating service
9) Vacation at a "dude" spa-ranch, hike the Appalachian Trail...
10) Pickup a date at your best friend's wedding
11) Perfect the tale of your life (the juicier the details so much the better) and get a TV interview with "Phil"... whichever Phil fills the bill
12) Listen to all your friends' tales of success and... well, by now you get the general drift of...
I was once described as "a keeper" by a sister of a woman I was dating (like in reel this fish in...he's keeper, or perhaps she meant shoot this "buck"...?). A few years back it was the fad to rate men and women on a scale of one to ten. A 10 was a trophy catch!! And always it seemed the Trophy 10 Men and Women were in short supply and never gave a "nerd" a second look!
So what are men and women of "faith" to do in such a world? Before you "start your engines" perhaps the following checklist would be helpful and profitable in moving toward the hope of a Yahweh prepared and selected partner/spouse.
1) What Tree is she eating from: The Tree of Life or the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
2) Where is he planted: in the garden of the world or in Yahweh's Garden/Kingdom?
3) Is his Life and the Tree bearing fruit every month?
4) How will she do in the "day" of Adversity? Drought? Darkness? Is she "sappy and green"?
5) Is he a "choice vine" of Yahweh and would you choose him?
6) Is she rooted in Yahweh and drawing water from a live spring?
7) Is his/her fruit sweet to your taste? Will you be content to abide/sit in his shade?
8) Who is he abiding in, resting in, trusting in? Is she a Proverbs 31 woman?
9) What are her desires? Who is her delight?
10) Does he have a wisdom and understanding of Yahweh's teaching, instructions, His ways?
Might these be considered as "The Ten Questions" of Yahweh's revelation, perhaps even His Ten Commandments of matchmaking?
"So Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which Yahweh God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh..." Is this not the perfect matchmaking that Yahweh offers to all who would have His ways, without the running to and fro with all its striving and anxiety? Is not His match perfect in spirit first (because He has brought it about in His own Spirit!), then fitted in soul and in the physical/flesh? Adam, in his deep sleep, never knew his rib and been taken, and then secretly fashioned into Eve, but when Yahweh brought her to him, he immediately recognized her. He didn't recognize her as a "soul-mate", but as an ezer ka-negdo (face to face) mate in the Spirit of Yahweh from His Kingdom Realm---then all the rest in the soul and physical were ordered rightly.
So you think you can improve on His Way and His Creation?
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