House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from
the LORD.
-Proverbs 19:14
HOUSES AND RICHES
To get the sense of what the philosopher was trying to put across in the
first part of the verse, we need not to look at this from the child's point of
view, but rather from the parent's.
What I am trying to mean is that we need not to look for what our parents
will provide as our inheritance, but rather what we are going to provide for
our children.
-What plans do we, as today's youth have on our future lives and families?
-Do we take the the fact that we will be responsible as guardians at some
point seriously? If yes, what do we do about it?
The Bible, in the same book of Proverbs, in chapter 13:22 tell us that a
good man leaves inheritance for the children of his children. We all know the
opposite of good. Do we want to be labeled “bad” for failing to provide for our
children? Obviously no one wants that.
Paul in his writing to Timothy also emphasized on the need to for every
responsible being to be a provider, labeling everyone who does not provide for
his family and relatives as “worse than a non-believer” (1 Timothy 5:8). That is
not what we want in our lives, so let us learn to plan our lives and to submit
our plans to God. He wants you to succeed in life by working hard, so when you
plan your future life in the way God wants you to live it, you are guaranteed
that He will see you through, for the plans God has for our lives are plans to
prosper us (Jeremiah 29:11)
Let us not live myopic lives. Today and tomorrow are almost obvious, but we
need to see a bigger picture of our lives, because the fact that we are growing
together with our responsibility is undeniable.
THE PRUDENT WIFE
To understand this properly, you need to have one basic thing in mind; any
love relationship between a boy and a girl (this is going out to my fellow
young people to be more precise) is meant to be, and should be a preparation
for marriage and nothing less than that. This means that if one is to get into
a relationship, it has to be marriage oriented. The immediate interpretation to
this, then, is that every prudent prospective partner, girlfriend or boyfriend
is from the LORD.
Does it mean that you cannot get a partner who is not from God? Not at all,
and probably this is the mistake most of us young people keep making nowadays.
Most of us talk of putting God first in everything, but we ignore to search
for His consent in relationships for one simple reason. Deep in our
subconscious minds we now that we don't need relationships or partners, and as
such God cannot give them to us. The Bible says on Philippians 4:19 that God
shall supply us ALL our NEEDS, not according to our measure, but according to
His riches. Those are needs, and not wants (like the meaningless relationships
most of us young people fall into).
Knowing that God cannot give us our wants, we still go on and start our
relationships, which obviously is not a good idea. Let us learn to get all our
NEEDS from God. If He said he will provide us our needs according to His
reaches, can He fail to give a "prudent" partner when you need one?
Let us not venture into relationships that are not from God, making that avoidable mistake of starting a relationship on our own and expecting God to
sustain it. He is not supposed to, so He won’t and again I say, GOD WON’T
SUSTAIN THAT!!!!
Let us give this a serious reflection. It will surely change our lives.
