The Man Of Monasm--Never Alone And Always Joined In Joy
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When you receive the Seal you are no longer alone. God becomes your potential spouse for ete
ity. But you will also be satisfied as unmarried in this world when you live in monasm.
God created the earth and everything surrounding it in seven days. On the seventh day He rested. This is the famous Sabbath Day, or day of rest. On the fifth day He created the man.
First He created Adam. He did not immediately create a female companion for Adam. And there was a reason for this. God let Adam remain alone in monasm to show Him how much he needed a companion.
Adam did not take a vow of monasm. It was thrust upon him by His Creator, God. And so without a vow and without even his consent, this monasm was not especially appealing.
God originally shaped Adam from out of the earth. This is how God shapes you when you are sealed. The Seal is in the shape of the earth. God plants a little garden in you.
The first little garde
God plants is by setting the Seal upon you which becomes a little plot of ground in which He sows a single wheat Seed. In the beginning there is just the one tiny plot of ground and the one wheat Seed.
Your Seal is that ground and the wheat Seed is Jesus. When Jesus is planted in you and grows up to bear fruit, in the first harvest there are many seeds which started with just the one.
Those many seeds can be sown in you too, and with the growth of the first plant Jesus comes also the growth of your garden. Eventually you have the potential of growing nearly as big as the earth itself.
The animals and birds of the dry land were created by God in a similar way in which He created Adam. And that is how He seals you too. He shaped them out of the earth just like He shaped the Seal.
So God brought all the animals He shaped to Adam. And Adam gave them all names, calling them whatever he wanted. But Adam did not find a companion in all those animals. None of them were like him.
That was when God decided to create a woman to be the companion of Adam. But this was not something God "discovered" after Adam rejected all the other creatures. This was something God knew all along.
Adam needed someone like him to be his companion. The other creatures were not like him enough. The woman God made was like Adam enough to be His companion. But God knew this already.
God had already planned to give the woman to Adam. He had already designed that there would be male and female among most of the life of all the animals and the plants too.
When God showed Adam the other animals, he was showing Adam how much he needed the woman. He did it so Adam would fully realize his own love for the woman, his own need for her companionship.
Because without her Adam lived in monasm. And he had not made a vow to live this way. So he was given the woman. And he loved her very much. He knew what life was like without her.
But the life of monasm is yet another life of pleasure. Those who vow a life of monasm do yet have a satisfying Companion. That Companion is God Himself.
It is a pleasure to devote yourself to the life of monasm because God will also be your ete
al Companion. You will never be alone. You will always have God. And of course it is a pleasure to marry too.
When you are sealed you will have pleasure whether you marry or you live in monasm with God as your Spouse and Companion. You will never be alone when you receive the Seal. nn
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