MIGHT HAVE A LAXATIVE EFFECT WHEN TAKEN IN EXCESS

1 sam 18-22

this is one of those passages where i look at God(in a manner of speaking)
and go, God, what exactly do you want to say to me here?

and i'm not sure if its just me,
but i felt that the reply was this:
you don't need girls.

david and jonathan (oh is that why the twins are named so? huh mr tay?)
loved each other as he loved himself.
they covenanted and took care of each other.
furthermore in chapter 21 david was allowed to eat of the bread of the presence only if they hadn't been with women.
not that women are unholy, since god gave them, and marriage, to man.
but i guess that is the human element that separates us from God, our inadequacy in and of ourselves that we need another, a partner to lean on.

but before i get distracted.

who needs girls--or women for that matter--when you have brothers?
and i don't mean in the happy sense--as in, as a lark
surely paul must have seen something when he said in 1 cor
he who marries the virgin does right, but he who does not marry her does even better.
of course he was talking about an engaged person, but the preceding paragraph laid out that it does not matter if one is married or not,
or whether ons is slave or not
or whether one is anything. or not.
what matters is loving and serving God.

sometimes i ask myself, when i begin to talk like that, is it just sour grapes?
placating myself in self denial?
i'd like to think not.

but just to be sure, i think i shall be sure.
and spend the day loving God.

cheers