Marriage?

What does the Lord say about marriage?

Lets look at 1 Corinthians 7:1-9
1 Now for the matters you wrote about: it is good for a man NOT to marry.
2 But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
3 His husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the woman to her husband.
4 The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.
5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and only for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 I say to your concession, not as a command.
7 I WISH ALL MEN WERE AS I. But each man has his own gift from God, one has this gift another has that gift.

8 NOW TO THE UNMARRIED AND WIDOWS I SAY: IT IS GOOD FOR THEM TO STAY UNMARRIED AS I AM.
9 BUT IF THEY CAN NOT CONTROL THEMSELVES, THEY SHOULD MARRY, FOR IT IS BETTER TO MARRY THAN TO BURN WITH PASSION.

I was on a conference call tonight with some of THE most wonderful Christian women I know. One of the girls (whom I assume is younger than me because she looks younger than me) talked about starting up a blog for "older women" (again, Im 27 and she looks younger than me) and how they can still serve God while NOT being married.

I cant understand why these girls desire to be married so badly. Is it because they think they are doing the Lord's work by BEING married and having children? God's word clearly states, we are to stay unmarried as he was.

I dont want to sound like a hypocrite since I married when I was 20. There was no doubt that I lacked self-control in the immorality department. But why these girls would be concerned about not being married is beyond me.

It is only my opinion, but I would think they could do so much more and spread the gospel to so many more people than I could ever dream of because of the simple fact, THEY HAVE NO OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES. For example, they could move to third world countries and do missionary work. As much as I feel the need to preach the word to more people, I simply cant due to my children's age. Im sure as they get older and more independant, I will be able to do more missionary work but right now, my focus is on the needs here in the home.

Maybe thats what they want. I dont know. But the way I see it, we are not to marry unless we can NOT control ourselves. Since we can not control ourselves, we get married. What happens when you get married? You have children. When we are blessed with our children, we open up a whole new can of worms to deal with.