I know quite a few eligible, godly, and attractive young ladies who want to get marry and start a family, but feel frustrated by the apparent absence of mature and godly men interested in pursuing them.  In the meantime, they are waiting patiently and anxiously, but the process of waiting is difficult at times.  I came across Nancy Wilson’s recent posts about this specific subject that I know will benefit my single female audience.  In Wilson’s Unmarried and Fruitful post, she writes:

In your thinking, do not let marriage become an end rather than a means. Marriage is a means of glorifying God, not an end in itself. Determine to use your unmarried state as a means of glorifying God as well, and don’t allow marriage to become something other than what it is in the created order. In other words, don’t let it become an idol, something that has way too much importance to you, so that you believe you are only half a person or that you are being held back spiritually because of your unmarried state.

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