How to choose a right life partner according to what God intend?

Question

And what has it to do with consistentency with the Scripture?

Tks cocoa! esp. 'Pray. If the person is the right one, you will find yourself growing closer to God.', this is a insight for me!

Answer 1

Pray. If the person is the right one, you will find yourself growing closer to God.

Answer 2

One should always pray about the person they date. Ask God if this person is ok. Keeping in mind the other person has their free will too and if they don't want to be with you it won't happen even if God approved it.

Answer 3

I believe the primary tenant in choosing the right life partner is based upon meeting the needs of each other. Living for each other, and living your life happily together. What more is there? Jesus was all about love, so what could be more pleasing to him then two people living their lives in love. I believe this goes for heterosexual & gays alike.

Answer 4

Start with aligning yourself with God. Take a look at what your relationship with God is and how you want it to improve. Then work with God (prayer and meditations) to see what you have to offer. See God's a better listner when you start thinking, "I can give my life partner _________, and it will make God Happy".

Dunno if you're Christian --- but here's some 411 that might help you align yourself with God and his plan for marriage:

"Spouses not only image the love of God with in the Trinity; they also image the love between God and all humanity, made visible in the love of Christ and the Church. By virtue of their Baptisms, the marriage of Christians is a sacrament. That means it’s a living sign that truly communicates and participates in the union of Christ the Church. The marriage vows lived out in the spouses’ “One Flesh” union constitutes this living sign.

Paraphrasing St. Paul: For this reason a man will leave father and mother and cling to his bride, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a profound mystery, and it refers to Christ and the Church . Christ left his Father in heaven. He left the home of his mother on earth - to give up his body for his Bride (Catholic Church) so that we might become “one flesh” with him.

Where do we become “one flesh” with Christ? Most specifically in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the sacramental consummation of the marriage between Christ and the Church. And when we receive the body of our heavenly Bridegroom into our own, just like a bride we conceive new life in us - God’s very own life. As Christ said, “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you” (Jn 6:53).

Since the “one flesh” communion of man and wife foreshadowed the Eucharistic communion of Christ and the Church right from the beginning, John Paul II speaks of marriage as the “Primordial Sacrament.” Let’s pause for a moment to let this reality sink in. Of all the ways that God chooses to reveal his life and love in the created world, John Paul II is saying, marriage - enacted and consummated by sexual union - is the most fundamental.

St. Paul wasn’t kidding when he said this is a “profound mystery.” Could God have made our sexuality any more important than this? Any more beautiful? Any more glorious? God gave us sexual desire itself to be the power to love as he loves, so that we could participate in the divine life and fulfill the very meaning of our being and existence."