6-1-2016-LONESOME DOVE LIKE LONESOME WIDOW
"REMARKS"
EVER SEEN A LONESOME DOVE SITTING ON A HIGH LINE AND WONDER WHERE IS ITS MATE? YOU MAY NOT KNOW BUT IT IS REPORTED THAT WHEN A DOVE MATES WITH ANOTHER, THEY MATE FOR LIFE AND WHEN ONE OF THEM IS DECEASED, THIS PRODUCES THE LONESOME DOVE.
WHEN PEOPLE MATE, THEY TOO ARE TO BE MATED FOR LIFE BUT WHEN ONE IS DECEASED, IT PRODUCES ANOTHER KIND OF LONESOME MATE, THE LONESOME WIDOW.
IN THESE TWO COMPARISONS, WE SEE THAT FROM THE OUTSIDE BEING LONESOME SEEMS OK FOR THE LONESOME DOVE BUT FOR THE LONESOME WIDOW THE PAIN SEEMS MORE DEFINITIVE AND HURTFUL, THOUGH THE DOVE MAY AND I THINK PROBABLE, THEY TOO SUFFER LOSS AND HURT FOR THE LOSS OF THEIR MATE.
CAN A WIDOW BE AS ACCEPTING ITS FATE AS A DOVE? THE SCRIPTURE GIVES THIS STATEMENT.
1 CORINTHIANS 7: 8-9 =ALSO 39-40
I SAY THEREFORE TO THE UNMARRIED AND WIDOWS , IT IS GOOD FOR THEM TO ABIDE EVEN AS I (SINGLE). BUT IF THEY CANNOT CONTAIN, LET THEM MARRY; FOR IT IS BETTER TO MARRY THAN TO BURN.
THE WIFE IS BOUND BY THE LAW AS LONG AS HER HUSBAND LIVES; BUT IF HER HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS AT LIBERTY TO BE MARRIED TO WHOM SHE WILL; ONLY IN THE LORD. BUT SHE IS HAPPIER IF SHE SO ABIDE(WIDOW) AFTER MY JUDGMENT: AND I THINK ALSO THAT I HAVE THE SPIRIT OF YAHWEH.
SO, THESE SCRIPTURES DECLARE WIDOWS WHETHER DOVES, OR PEOPLE, SHOULD BE CONTENT TO LINGER ON THE THOUGHTS OF THEIR DECEASED MATES AND REMAIN IN LOVE WITH THEM IN MEMORY AND COMMITTMENT.