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If marriage shows us the shape of the gospel,  singleness shows us its sufficiency. Much of what we commonly assume about singleness—that it is primarily about the absence of good things like intimacy, family, or meaningful ministry—is either flat-out untrue or, at the very least, shouldn't be true. To be single, we often think, is to be alone and spiritually hindered. But the Bible paints a...

Marriage and singleness, as I hope we’ve seen, are both good gifts from God, ways in which we can experience God’s goodness, but in a fallen world they’re gifts that come with unique difficulties. Neither is easy. Both are painful. Each has its ups and downs, and the ups and downs of each look different to those of the other. So the danger is that we compare the downs of our own situation with the ups of the alternative. We singles easily look at the ups of marriage and compare them to the downs