A Bridegroom Part IV

We are growing in understanding of God and love and some mysticism. 

The Question:  Why are Priests celibate or should they be? 

God is honorable.  Given a man is a representative of God, he could not or should not be in conflict with other men in love issues. 

• He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,  (Leviticus 21:14) 
• But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.(1 Peter 2:9) 
  

Christian societies value virgin brides.  There have been more right ways towards finding a wife.  A servant of God, should not be in conflict with other men in the wrong way in the realm of love.  God is love.  (1 John 4:8)  There is a sense of honor.  Given a man was with a girl physically without her dad's permission, for example, he dishonored her, her dad, and the family potentially.  There is where some shotgun weddings may have happened.  You didn't understand that honor was important?  You must have been lead astray by Christ Denying, Marxist, Betty Friedan? 

Dwelling on God's Law with God, in this way, we may be able to find a number of interesting things. 

I have been working under the following: 

Prophetic Ministry. 

Wife of a Prophet

Some prophets will be single, but many will be married. The wife of a prophet often carries a heavy burden.

1. Men called to the prophetic ministry are usually very thick skinned. They need to be to fulfil their calling.

   I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are. I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint (Ez 2:8,9).

   Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land-the kings of Judah, its officials its priests and the people of the land (Jer 1:18)

   The wife of the prophet is not a fortified city. She is a precious vessel (1 Peter 3:7), who is vulnerable to attack. Because opposites attract, she is quite often a very sensitive person.

   As the prophet moves into his calling, he must put protection in place for his wife. She needs to be surrounded by loyal and sympathetic friends, who understand her struggle and can provide encouragement and support. His calling to be a prophet must not be put ahead of his responsibility as a husband. His wife must not be sacrificed on the altar of the prophetic ministry.

Video:  Irish Spring  

God may have set me up to walk in some familiar paths.  Also, living as a hermit, more or less, and only going out to eat or drink, mostly, it has been hard to find a virgin at a bar.   (Matthew 11:19)