DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, JUNE 19, 2013
HE THAT FINDETH A WIFE
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. Proverbs 18:22
One must seek the Lord for that which is needful. If you seek the Lord for a wife, He will lead you to the one He desires for you. And she will be the perfect complement to your life. She will be the fulfilling of your glory and will enable you, in a far greater measure, to glorify the Lord and to bring honor to His name. Because of this, he who findeth a wife has found the Lord's favor as well. God is thrilled and delighted with the union, and the marriage will bring great joy to God.
In Genesis 2:18, God is clear in discussion of the matter: "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." Though it is Jesus Christ who completes us and makes us whole--gives us Shalom; a mate enhances and fulfills us. That which is difficult to do on our own, our mate makes joyous, easier, sweet. That which feels burdensome on our own, our mate makes bearable, worthwhile...even fun.
Hear the bridegroom with his bride:
How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Song of Solomon, Chapter 7.
Today, let us praise God for His goodness.
