devotions spawn the most random thoughts.....

in a moment during my devotions just now i came across this phrase in Warren Wiersbe's "On Being a Servant of God" and decided to dust off my blog, which has so long lain in disregard due to a new phenomenon known as facebook...

He is saying how moses is asking God:" whom am i? that i should go to Pharoah and that i should bring the children of Isreal out of Egypt?" I have read this passage many times in Exodus chapter 3 and every time i think: i just know im gonna like this guy...he's so much like me! always coming up with excuses when it comes to doing God's will....
Wiersbe goes on to say, "Moses argued that he was 'slow of speech and slow of tongue' and God reminded Moses that HE made his tongue and could easily teach him what to say. Such resistance isn't unusual. After all, it's an awesome thing to be God's servant and do His will. Like marriage Christian service should not be 'entered into lightly or carelessly, but reverently, soberly and in the fear of God'." BINGO! this is what i've always thought about marriage, and i'd never thought of the illustration before of comparing it to entering into christian ministry. Of late have dropped the habit of staunchily proclaiming that i will never get married. But when I did say this, many people have wondered why, oh why, i wouldnt just love to spend the rest of my life with prince charming? And though strange enough a proclaimation as that is, as a member of the female species.......i have neither lack of a good father's example to lay blame on, nor lack of respect for the males in my life. I am not a feminist. I have respect in surplus for most of my guy friends, and have no doubt that they will make incredible husbands/fathers someday.
I was just yesterday reading a novel by an incredible christian woman! (at least she writes incredible novels....) by the name of Jamie Langston Turner, who's novels are nearly motive enough to attend Bob Jones University mearly to take class from her. anyways in her book "A Garden to Keep" the main character expresses the view that she went to college in purpose to get a good education and fully expected to come back with a husband, not a career, and how although feminism was alive at the time, most girls really did just want the whole wife and mother thing. Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Im a huge fan of Godly amazing mothers, its just that i lack the same desire as described in this novel. Now granted God changes people, and their desires, and if he ever does, im willing. Because i'd rather be doing His will then my own any given day of the week, even if that doesnt sound like the most fun thing ever to me. So even though i love school, i love studying, i'd love to get a good job, and have the freedom to do things like travel randomly, and take long walks, and read from novels daily, if God's will is for me to be changing 8 diapers, then that is what i will be doing.
So i suppose my point in all this is two things: one, explain my view on marriage, personally, for all of you who have ever wanted to know what i think/thought me crazy, and my second point is, from the original quote, to urge you all to not just assume that you are meant to marry (though the comparison of marriage to christian ministry WOULD imply that we dont have an option...this isnt in face the case, for example: Paul) and if you are inclinded towards marriage to not enter it lightly but reverently, soberly and in the fear of God!! dont miss that last part about the 'fear of God'! I think that many people who enter into marriage would do better with a little more of the fear of God in therm....how much better would... communication, for example, be between couples, if they had the fear of God to respect Him together, and follow his principles.......anyways enough rambling for one afternoon. and im off my soap box now, i shall endeavor to proof read this now like a good student and cut out the worst parts.............