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Publicado: Wednesday 01 de April de 2026, 12:05 Hello, visitor! Article about i want a single man: Ten years ago—to the day—I wrote For the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven , an exaltation of Christ over the blessing of marriage. I was twenty-three at the time—intense, Thirty-Three and Single. Ten years ago—to the day—I wrote For the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven , an exaltation of Christ over the blessing of marriage. ENTER THE SITE I was twenty-three at the time—intense, zealous, restless. I wrote for a few reasons: to critique my friends’ obsession with dating, relationships, and marriage, to fight against my own temptation to fixate on finding a spouse, to set my mind on eternity, where there is only one eternal marriage, that is Christ’s marriage to His Bride. Ten years later, I still believe every word I wrote, especially the end: “This I say for your own benefit, not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord (1 Cor 7:35). I am not putting down marriage, nor the desire for marriage. But, Christ is all-sufficient. While marriage is good and God-honoring, Christ-likeness transcends marriage (and singleness). Christ is the Husband of the Church, the only Savior of the World, the Preeminent One who made Himself a eunuch for sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. He never married. We ought to glory in this, and share in His singular, undistracted devotion to God. Even as I exalted Christ over marriage, I never would have imagined that I would be thirty-three and “still” single. I never foresaw the many challenges God would bring before me. I never thought God would use my life—contrary to my own plans—to display the sufficiency of Christ in singleness. And, I never anticipated that this, in His mysterious wisdom, would be His good plan for my life. Ten years ago, I was willing to be single for Christ—but, I did not expect it to be so lonely. Whereas my 20s were filled with constant companionship and fellowship with equally-single roommates, coworkers, and church members, my 30s thus far have been often marked by loneliness. Single Station. If life is a linear journey through a series of train stations, I often think of myself as stuck at the train station called Single. When I look around this station, the most bewildering question I have is, “Where did all my friends go?” Most of my peers from high school and college have moved on to the station just down the line: Marriage. Many have even traveled further to the station littered with diapers and toys, called Young Parenthood. Having departed from Single Station, my friends are, well, busy. With the blessings and burdens of family, they are busy with an incessant flurries of in-laws, family dinners, vacations, anniversaries, playdates, naps, daycare, school, graduations, sport practices, tournaments, and the like. I have lived with two families in the last 5 years and have seen first hand that young families are crazy busy. The cacophony of creating memories is their constant. Their overflowing schedules hardly have extra space for necessary rest, let alone much time for singles. If there is a free evening, the most practical thing is to ask another married couple to meet. If there is an opportunity for relationship-building, the most strategic invitees are families with kids the same age as their own. I don’t blame such calculated decisions, if I were in their shoes, I would probably do the same. But the fact remains: I’m still here, just down the line, craning my neck to see the goodness of God to my friends.

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