"And God saw all that He had made and He it was very good" Genesis 1:31
"He who finds a wife, finds a good thing and obtains favour from the Lord" Proverbs 18v22
" And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A three stranded chord is not quickly torn apart" Ecclesiastes 4:12
So, I told my husband I will always see him as God saw his very first. " He is good". Then he smiled and said, "you will always be my good thing". We laughed over it as usual thinking it was one of those mushy moments.
However, this morning I woke up and the first thing I said to myself was, " I am KO's good thing". I felt good saying that to myself. It felt so real.
However, as the day progresses, I keep thinking about what it takes to be a good thing. Yeah, its pretty simple, right? The scriptures says a wife is a good thing and I am a wife.
So why do I keep thinking it takes more than a wedding and a wedding band to make one a wife? Because I am right.
A wife is her husband's unflinching support. That statement is so heavy I almost choked on it. Because as I was writing that, I asked myself "Will I pack my bags and follow KO if God tells him to quit his job and become a village evangelist?"
A wife who is a good thing knows how to call on God. She draws her strength and her beauty from the Lord. She does not bring disgrace to her husband. She does not go on random dates with other men. She will not allow other men to touch her anyhow no matter how playful it may be. She is a good thing.
The bible calls her in Proverbs 31 "A wife of noble character". She is a good thing and her husband has full confidence in her. She is financially smart, morally upright, respectful.. She is a good thing.
No she is not to be pushed over. Her silence is heavier than her words. She is valued. She is a good thing
She is hardworking, decent, beautiful, worth more than rubies. She is a good thing.
The more I think about it, the standards of a proverbs 31 woman almost seems too high to attain. But whilst I kept reflecting on it, my mind goes to Ecclesiastes 4:12
When a man and a woman who God himself has used the word good to describe come together, they can resist the enemy but when God gets in the picture, they can never be broken.
Just because my husband is good and I am his good thing does not guarantee we will not be torn apart. We need the master himself to stay in our boat with us. That is another post entirely
I am a good man's good thing, I will not let any man address me anyhow, touch me anyhow, play psychological games on me anyhow, intimidate me because we had a past because a good man has made me a good thing...
Stay blessed
