Singleness or Marriage: Which is Better?

In 2016, for the first time in Canada's history, the number of one-person households had surpassed all other types of living situations. They accounted for 28.2 per cent of all households, more than the percentage of couples with children, couples without children, single-parent families, multiple family households and all other combinations of people living together.

During an average person’s lifetime, a significant portion of their life will be spent single. Typically, the first 25 years of life and perhaps the last 10-15 years will be spent as a single person. At some point in our lives we are all single. So, how we live as a single will determine how fulfilled we will be even if we get married. Singleness can either be a stage of life or a desired state of life. 
 
At times the grass may seem greener on the other side. Singles may long for a marriage partner to bring happiness, while marrieds may secretly long to be single again to escape any dissatisfaction with their partner.

So, what does God say about living single? Is it God’s intention that everyone should pursue marriage? Is it possible that marriages struggle because we have not learned to live our single lives as God intended it to be?

August 12, 2018