July 9: “A Wife – God’s Gracious Gift to a Man”

4 Minute Read

TODAY’S BIBLE READING:

1 Chronicles 7:1–8:40
Acts 27:1-20
Psalm 7:1-17
Proverbs 18:22

TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE(S):

Proverbs 18:22 (CSB): “A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.”

REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE(S):

When a man marries a woman, there is much more to it than meets the eye.

On May 10, 1997, I stood at the front of the worship center of Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. I will never forget enjoying the site of my wife being walked slowly down the aisle to meet me.

Within a few minutes, both of us said, “I do.” Our marriage had begun.

But, I didn’t simply pick Kim and she didn’t simply pick me.

As I took her for my wife, I realized that my God had graciously given her to me. He was smiling on me as I received His gift to me.

Proverbs 18:22 (CSB) “A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.”

That’s what our Verse for Today is all about. It’s a message to guys saying that we all need to realize that if we are blessed with a wife, she is God’s gift to us.

So, she is to be enjoyed and cherished. She is to be loved and treated with honor. As a precious gift from our Father, she needs to be treated as the wonderful God-given gift that she is.

While the wife is called to follow her husband’s loving leadership (Ephesians 5:22-24), the husband is commanded to sacrificially serve and love his wife even if it requires dying to himself daily to do so (Ephesians 5:25ff). He is called to selflessly sacrifice for her, something the Scripture never commands his wife to do.

Why should we lay down our life daily for our wife and love her unconditionally? Among other reasons, she is God’s gift to us. We have obtained favor from the Lord and He has smiled on us.

So, husbands, we’ve got work to do. Get busy.