Matchmaker

In the recent episode of How I Met Your Mother we have Ted going to a local matchmaker (Love Solutions) to help him find the best match for him.This matchmaker has a reputation of being the very best in town with a 100% success rate. ted is reluctant at first because he see going to a matchmaker as giving up. But after some expected encouragement from his friends he decides to go through with it. Barney accompanies him seeing it as an opportunity to met lonely and desperate women. Barney pretends to be this sensitive, lonely, and compassionate man but is quickly found out by the founder of Love Solutions. He is kicked out by her but Ted remained. She saw potential in Ted and guaranteed that she will find him a match. However after three days she is unable to find Ted an available match.

His only match is a women who is engaged to be married. Of course this does not stop Ted from going to meet her. Using the information he acquired, by stealing her profile print out, he tries to woo her. This quickly proves useless as she is fully committed to going through with the marriage. She convinces him not to give up looking despite the fact that the matchmaker couldn't help him.

I don't to many people personally who have been set up through a "matchmaker." I know I have been on the end if being set up a few times and every time it did not work out very well. Single people everywhere are looking for that special someone and at times they have well meaning friends who try to help them. We as believers who are in search for that special someone turn to God in our journey. I constantly look to God for wisdom in this manner. But is making God the divine "matchmaker" appropriate? Now I believe that God care about us, I mean the very hairs on our head are counted. But when I hear the words "God has someone special in line for me." I struggle thinking of him as a matchmaker. I believe that his teaches us his ways and guides us into maturity so that we may make wise choices in every manner, especially relationships.

People often quote the Adam and Eve story that God brought Eve to Adam. This is enough reasoning to conclude that God will bring us our partner. Though I see some validity in this argument, we must recognized that they were the only two at the time. We can let ourselves be over taken by such thoughts and not be active in our self growth and improvement.