Sunday, July 13, 2014

I wish I were told.


I never planned to be married, neither to be a father (a thing I´m biologically, and not the way I have thought I could be).

I assumed that after you divorced you´ve found too many reason to it or, on the other hand, you ex-mate found enough reasons to be divorced and far from you (and me). It´s failure not acknowledging them where, sometimes, there are more than several guilty parts and, often, these hidden flaws are from either of their families or passed on the children left after separation, too.

Why did the Scripture ask high priests to marry only virgins?

Some of those reasons probably were:
a) They had to work in the temple being absent more than a month  () far from their beds and houses, as long as their duty and service to GOD ended.
b) Probably the Lord wanted them to be relieved from emotional secular worries.
c) Priests were not supposed to be economically rich and, according to the Law, they would be “paid” from what their spiritual service gave them to live on, through God´s provisions (Num 18:23  But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.).

What would be the character of a woman like that? Do they permited too many freedom their women? Such as visiting their masculine friends their homes and alone?
Culture shaped our present day and its fashions lead us nowhere.
I started to believe that the present day rates of divorce have too much to do with marrying without chastity, either of both sexual genders. If we would pay attention at this, life could be different, I guess.
Lev_21:14  He must not marry a woman who has had sexual relations with any man. He must not marry a prostitute, a divorced woman, or a widow. The high priest must marry a virgin from his own people.
Eze_44:22  The priests must not marry a widow or a divorced woman. No, they must only marry a virgin from the family of Israel or a woman whose dead husband was a priest.

If GOD planned something big like that for those who served Him directly, why don´t we consider it an important information?
I wish I were young to marry one like those God thought for a simple man.

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