Page 54 if a young woman gets married, it is not a sin. However, I am trying to spare you the extra problems that come with marriage. (1 Cor. 7:24- 28, NLT) I think that this passage is remarkable. Paul admits that God has not revealed His moral will to him on this issue. In other words, it’s not a parking lot matter. It’s a parking space issue. And he declares that God has given him wisdom on it. There were monumental problems happening in Corinth when he wrote this letter. History tells us that there was a great famine going on at the time. Again, Paul leaves the decision of when to marry to the judgment of the believer. But in his opinion, given the dire conditions of the day, it was wiser for single Christians not to marry at that time. However, if they decide to marry, they are still in God’s will. To marry or not to marry are within God’s will. The choice is left to each individual believer. Now we move on to the boundaries of the parking lot. That is, whom to marry. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. (1 Cor. 7:39, KJV)
If you just get the big things straightened out, you will have what you need in the little things. What everyone in the world is obsessed with, God makes a distant second. He’ll give you what you need to live on if you need Him in order to live.
David Powlison