Joel Kim

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1,172 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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Renewing Your Mind · Questions & Answers: Living by Faith · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

And as both of our kids are now gonna be in school away from us, I am praying that my wife continues to be gracious to me because I'm not the easiest person.

To get back to the question, I think, which is an important one, because we do have a lot of folks who delay getting married intentionally or otherwise.

And I realize that perhaps I'm not the best person to be able to indicate and speak on this topic at all.

But I do have a couple siblings who are of that stage in life where they're older but remain single, not because they're opposed to marriage, just the Lord didn't.

bring the right person into their lives.

And this is where I think, and many of the literature as well as others have pointed out, that the Lord's calling in people's lives, including their marriage or non-marriage, is as He intended.

I recognize that this is going to sound hollow for someone who's coming at it from a marriage perspective,

But at the same time, singleness is not a deficiency.

It's the Lord's special calling in that stage of life until the Lord decides that there is someone in your life with whom you should walk the journey together.

Here there is a stage and freedom and chapter in life where you have a unique calling.

calling and participation in the life of the church that allows you to be able to serve them well.

I don't want to spin difficult things into easy things by any means.

And I recognize the pressure, both from family and society, for us to seek a spouse in that way.

But the Lord knows the timing and Lord knows who.

And it's this unique period and time in which unhindered, not as a negative thing about family and children,

but they take up a lot of time and unhindered by some of the responsibilities that are part of married life and with parenting that you're able to devote into extended family into which you have been placed.

I think they are uniquely placed and uniquely free to be able to serve our spiritual family in ways that perhaps many in different stages of life cannot.

And so this is where without understanding how some of these circumstances work and certainly trusting that the Lord in this providential leading does allow at different stages for various individuals to find a partner in life that the Lord is pleased with.

But don't think of this as necessarily a negative, a lack, or something problematic.

But think of this as the Lord's unique providence for you in terms of your ability to serve the family, the family that goes beyond the walls of our house.

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