Proverbs 31:10
10 An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
My wife is both excellent and far more precious than jewels. A precious stone may reflect beauty on the wearer. They may give the people around you something beautiful to see and make the world a more lovely place. But an excellent wife gives you the joy of real love. She brings you honor as the world wonders, “How did he get her?” I look at my wife and feel the same confusion mixed with just buckets of joy.
How is it possible that God would use this idea of a bride to talk about the Church? As a loving husband looks on an excellent wife, or a king shines in his radiant jewelry, God looks on you and me and finds joy. I expect Him to look at me like I look at something stuck to the bottom of my shoe, but no. That kind of love is beyond imagining and it rests, with all its intensity, on you.
Prayer prompt: Lord, I cannot understand Your love, but I’m so grateful for it.
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