Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Cor.7:7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

When people try, as they do, too make others like them, they lose gifts, moreover, they lose when they add to the law of love, the one commandment we are to live under as the body of Christ Jesus. Gifts are wonderful, but they are not deserved, they are given from a heart that wants to honor us in someway, but they are not ours, in this sense that we produce from are own common wealth.

Here Paul understand that he was given a gift of not needing sexual relationship within the marriage arrangement, unlike others that needed to be married so they do not dishonor the good name by which they were called. But what we don't see, as we so often hear about among fleshly Christian's is Paul creating another rule too add on to the one law of love; demanding performance, and punishment for breaking such a law to stay single.

Paul understands he can not boast in a gift, furthermore, he cannot take a gift an make others have the same gift by a rule, no! Paul must, as we must, humble ourselves an accept the truth, which is, the body of Christ belongs not too us, but Jesus Christ intimately, he cares for each member, just as a good person cares for their own body members. Yes, it would be nice that one could stand before YHWH without the tribulation of marriage in full commitment as Paul himself did, but they can only do so if they have been given the same blessed gift, as Paul.