Singleness of Heart. By Richard Tudor Hyles-Anderson Staff

After 23 years of a wonderful marriage to my first wife, I suddenly found myself single again. My first wife had a sudden deadly heart attack and within an hour she was with the Lord.

I was an assistant Pastor with many ministries at our church in Michigan. My first wife went to be with the Lord on a Saturday night about 8 p.m. The next day I was in my place teaching my Sunday School class of young married couples, baptizing after the morning service and continuing my pastoral duties the next week.

I was not searching for a mate, I remained faithful to the Lord and His work as instructed in the Bible. It says, “he that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord”, also the same instructions for unmarried women, “the unmarried women careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit”. As a single perosn we are to care for the Lord’s work, this is our primary function for life.

God saw fit to allow me to meet Carol my wife now of almost eleven years. She also was involved in the Lord’s work at Hyles-Anderson college. As we dated she often said “my single was superior” to most other young female adults. She could say that because she was caring for the things of the Lord. We dated long distance from Michigan to Indiana for about four months until we knew it was God’s will that we be married.

Do not seek for a mate, be involved in your local church serving the Lord and His work and let Him bring your hearts desire to you.

“Keep thy hear with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life”. Proverbs 4:23