You Never Marry the Right Person

Commenting on Relevant Magazine’s excerpt of Timothy Keller’s book The Meaning of Marriage:

As we walk the path to marriage, it is easy to get caught up in finding the “right” person as defined by our own preferences and personal standards. This sets us up to become discouraged and disappointed when we enter relationships only to discover that the other person is, after all, as fallen as we are.

The world would have us move on at this point and keep searching for our elusive soul mate. Christian love, however, calls us to something higher – “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins” (1 Peter 4:8).

We should look for a person whose life demonstrates an active and growing faith – someone who loves God and others, someone who doesn’t practice sin. This is the kind of fallen and imperfect person we can grow with. Searching for something more will only leave us bitter, dissatisfied – and most likely, single.

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