Is God alone enough for single Christians?

I don’t think so…

If you’ve been told Jesus should be enough for single Christians, read this.

Ryan Holland recently asked me about this on the Holy Heartbreak Podcast where we talked about the call to singleness and the ache of loneliness. Here’s what I shared:

I think God could meet our needs for companionship all by Himself, if He chose to. But the Bible makes clear that that wasn’t His plan, from the beginning.

In Genesis 2:18, Adam had not yet sinned. He and everything in the Garden were perfect. Yet, God looked at Adam, saw that Adam was lonely without another human, and said, “You’re aloneness is not good.”

Adam had God, but there was still a lack. Not because God made a mistake. He could have made Adam so that all he ever needed was God. But He didn’t.

God made man to not only need companionship with God, but to also need companionship with other humans. That was intentional.

God intentionally made us so that He alone would not be enough for us.

So it’s okay for single Christian to reject the idea of “God alone should be enough for me” because that isn’t what God made us for!

We all need more than just intimacy with God, and that shouldn’t be surprising. Yes, we have the presence of the Father and the Spirit, but they’re not human. God the Son is human, but He is not currently here with us for us to see or hear or touch.

It’s not arbitrary that God put us in physical bodies. Engaging with other embodied humans matters. And the lack of embodied connection matters.

At least on this side of heaven, we’re going to need more than only Jesus. Not because it’s a mistake, but because it’s how God meant things to be.

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