What do you mean get married to Jesus…


When a man and a woman get married they say I do to being together till death do them part. That means after death one is free to remarry if they so wish.

So! Where did the gospel of telling widows to be married by Jesus come from? While the widower is advised to look around and get married since it is not good for him to be alone. The widow is given advise which goes like this, “…sister your husband is gone, you are now embarking on another journey of singlehood, remember my dear sister Jesus is now going to fill the gap that your husband was occupying, my sister now you will be married to Jesus and serve him diligently, go out there and obey the great commission since you are free”… wow! That encouraging advice almost sounds very godly and spiritual but it is heretical.

During a funeral while listening to that advice, am asking myself this young widow or even elderly widow has other needs, emotional, psychological and sexual needs. And am asking myself where Jesus will fit in the equation. My mind gets more jumbled, and am thinking to myself, maybe before the husband died they had a romantic date planned and definitely she was psychologically ready for him or maybe the previous night they had a passionate extra curriculum activity. How we now tell that widow to be married by Jesus is incomprehensible.

According to the bible Jesus told the Sadducees that there will be no marriage in heaven so the woman who had been married to seven men will not belong to any of the men in resurrection. Hence, there will be no sex in heaven, sex belongs to this world. That is why the advice of getting married to Jesus does not make sense and the guys advising others to be married to Jesus that night when they get home they will have extra curriculum activities with their partners.

Let us stop running away from issues and opting for the easy way out of forcing widows to be married by Jesus instead let us address the issue of widowhood and relax some of our African beliefs and stop frowning when a widow decides to remarry.

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