MATCHMAKER MATCHMAKER. . .
Heather Stern operated a professional matchmaker service ten years ago. She considered her Chicago company an executive search firm. Hopeful brides and grooms were questioned regarding their job history, marital status, physical health, financial health, and personal habits. Stern and her staff then prepare a list of possible matches. Two years into her service she boasted of over 100 marriages without a single divorce. If she is still operating her search firm, I suspect she is no longer batting a 1000, but would be able to put up some impressive statistics.
Stern charged $1,450 for a two-year effort to find a mate for her clients. One of her clients whom she successfully matched had this to say about the service: ‘The chances of meeting somebody nowadays in urban areas who is really suitable for you and who is going to be on your level in terms of intelligence and your life goals has got to be one in a thousand."
In biblical times, families were responsible for making marital arrangements for their young people. The choice of a lifetime mate was too serious a matter to leave up to youthful whims. Sometimes a matchmaker was secured by the family - witness the wife-finding task given to Abraham's chief servant in Genesis 24. The closest thing to this done by modern families is to send their child to a denominational university. Our culture simply mumbles a few words about love and says to its young in the matter of finding a life's companion: "Good luck!"
Some of you would agree with Stern’s client above. You are single. You want to be married, but Mr./Ms Right has not come along. I don't suppose there is anything wrong with consulting a professional match maker, but some of you have family and friends who are filling this role with crusading zeal. I want to suggest that you can also consult God. He listens to our prayers - even prayers for a marriage partner.
Add this one thing to your prayers. Look for your potential marriage partner in places where someone who has your values is likely to be "hanging out."
"Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain..." (Psalms 127:1)
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