Whoever Finds a Wife…

“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the LORD.” (Proverbs 18:22)

The late John Philips pointed out that it is one thing to find a woman; it is quite another to find a wife. Solomon had plenty of women.

In my last writing I mentioned my Aunt Cassie’s death. Some of the scenes of her life, sickness, death and funeral are etched indelibly in the mind of that seven year old boy of over seventy years ago.

Out at the barn yard gate the day after her death, Uncle Hade spoke with my father and said with trembling lips and a quivering voice, “William, what am I going to do? I’m lost without her.” When Hade Bell found Cassie Long and she became his wife he knew he had found a good thing. When she died he knew he had lost a good thing.

Other men have found good wives. There was Eve, given to Adam by the hand of God. There was Abraham and his wife Sarah, Boaz and Ruth, Isaac and Rebekah and many others, many of them not in the Bible.

Let the home be what God intended, with husbands loving their wives as Christ loved the church. Let the husbands and wives be pictures of Christ and the church and let them bring up the children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Better homes will produce a better country.