My Favorite Person - My Wife
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. Proverbs 18:22
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. Proverbs 31:10
Solomon, the writer of Proverbs, is right. If you are not married, let me encourage you with words from the Raiders of the Lost Ark, "When you choose, choose wisely." The wisest man who ever lived (Solomon) and the strongest man who ever lived (Samson) were both ruined when they chose women that didn't have a heart fully devoted to the Lord. Thankfully, I chose wisely!
Cindy didn't date anyone for three years before we met. She didn't want her heart to become attached to someone who didn't love Jesus. She was committed to honoring God in her dating life and was willing to wait for God to bring the right man. I thank God for her spiritual courage to wait.
We were both determined to wait for God's best. We didn't want to date someone just because we were afraid of being alone. We know the comfort our hearts long for can only be found in God. Until we could learn to be satisfied in Jesus alone, we could never be satisfied with one another.
Thankfully God honored a willingness to wait. He brought me a wonderful wife. A wife who loves Christ, her children, and her husband. I am blown away on a daily basis by her kindness, love, and beauty. I never tire of saying to her, "I would rather be with you than anyone else." Of course, she isn't perfect. Neither am I. As we both seek to follow and honor Christ, we find ourselves drawn closer to one another.
She was worth the wait!
My Favorite Quote
"Don't you know, young man, that from every town, and every village, and every little hamlet in England, wherever it may be, there is a road to London?" "Yes," said the young man. "Ah!" said the old divine, "and so from every text in Scripture, there is a road to the metropolis of the Scriptures, that is Christ. And my dear brother, your business is when you get to a text, to say, 'Now what is the road to Christ?' and then preach a sermon, running along the road towards the great metropolis - Christ. And," said he, "I have never yet found a text that had not got a road to Christ in it, and if I ever do find one that has not a road to Christ in it, I will make one; I will go over hedge and ditch but I would get at my Master, for the sermon cannot do any good unless there be a savor of Christ in it."-Charles H. Spurgeon, "Christ Precious to Believers" (March 13, 1859) Accessed online: http:/spurgeon.org/sermons/0242.htm