What Jesus Does For Singles

One day, while driving my car, I saw something that caught my eye and caused me to reflect on our journey of singleness. A family was getting ready to cross the street that had a fair amount of traffic going in both directions. This family consisted of a father, mother and one small child. As they approached the side of the street, the father picked up the small child and waited for traffic to clear up before he led his family to the other side. The small child apparently wanted to cross the street on her own because she started crying while trying to wriggle and twist out of her father’s grasp. This family made it safely across the other side and the father eventually released the child, but only after the child was no longer in danger.

What the father did for that child, Jesus does for singles!

How many times have we rushed headlong into situations and relationships and reached ill-advised conclusions totally unaware of the threats we were subjecting ourselves to? Jesus, like the father in the above story, protected us from the dangers we were unwittingly inviting and guided us to safety. Remember that time when:

• You just had to have that man or woman in your life?
• You were convinced that you couldn’t breathe without Mr. or Miss Look-So-Good?
• You just insisted on doing things your way?
• You gave in to sexual temptation and slept with someone who was not your marriage partner?
• You entertained the latest gossip and rumor about a close friend?
• You refused to see the good in a person and insisted on focusing on their faults?
  
  

In spite of our stubbornness and outright defiance, Jesus still protected us. That relationship, that man or woman, that sexual temptation, or those moments of indiscretions did not blow up in our faces. We’ve had our moments of depression and we’ve been sucker punched by guilt or frustration or anger, but Jesus still kept us from falling all the way down and out. That disease we were on our way to contracting was prevented from reaching us, that jealous boyfriend or girlfriend who was getting ready to “go postal” on us was diverted from our path, that lie or rumor we spread did not destroy a good friendship and we still have our mental and spiritual sanity. Because of Him, we are safe and we are able to live to see another glorious day of God’s brand new mercies.

Don’t think for a moment that you “made it to the other side of the street” on your own. In case you don’t recognize, let me tell you. Keeping us from falling, that’s what Jesus does for us singles!