When many of us hear well-meaning friends say, “Singleness is a gift,” we roll our eyes. But what about when God himself says it? How should we respond when the one who made singleness, marriage, sex, and relationships leans in and tells us, “This is my gift to you for your good”?

Many of us have adopted a view of singleness and marriage that is not God’s. When it seems like those around us treat the single years as a waiting room for marriage, and when we ourselves feel them as a curse, God himself still calls them a gift. So the most important question God asks his discontent single children is simply this: “Do you trust me?”