You gave your life to Jesus a few years ago, and you are confident in your faith now. What’s the next step? Getting married to a good Christian partner? No. Your lifetime goal has nothing to do with your social status.

The dream of many singles is to be happily married, with 2 to 4 children, living in a nice house, two cars and maybe even a dog. A lot of people pursue this image of success that is spread by the media, but is this really what God wants for you?

Having goals in life is a great thing and everyone should have goals. Goals are what give us direction in our lives. A hockey game with no net, so no one can score goals is rather boring. Life without a purpose is boring. But among all the goals that you could have, marriage is not one them.

God wants to use us for His glory, but what He asks us to do isn’t always easy. At least, not easy for us. In our opinion, another person would be in a much better position to accomplish the task. So why us?

Maybe this will shock some of you, but God didn’t save you to have a comfortable life on this Earth. He saved us so we could extend His Kingdom. So we could bear fruit (John 15.16). We have a mission,