Nehemiah 11:22-36, Nehemiah 12, Revelation 21, Proverbs 31:10-20
Proverbs 31: 10-12
“An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious
than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack
of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.”
I love the description of a wife in verses 10 through 12
from Proverb 31. Lemuel tells us that an excellent wife is more precious than
jewels, and that her husband will trust her because he will always gain by her
actions. A husband can expect an excellent wife to do him good and not harm all
the days or her life. I know when I was married, I was not always an “excellent
wife” to my husband. We both loved God, but we were not serious about our own
individual relationships with God. We could not rely on the word of God for how
to guide our actions. I know our marriage fell apart because when things got
rough, we had nothing but our love to hold us together and that was not enough.
I think if we were stronger people of faith, we would have had God, his words,
and the Bible to help us through the difficult task of being in a relationship.
Having two people live and try to navigate life together when they’ve both been
raised differently, are not of the same age, and are completely different in so
many other ways is so difficult. I am now convinced that a married couple can
only stay married if they follow and rely on Jesus Christ to help them stay together.
From my own experience, it’s just too hard to stay married unless you have God
helping you and your spouse to stay together and in love. I think if I was more
into my faith when I was married I would have strived to be more of an “excellent
wife”.
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