I Know Some Happily Married Single Women

He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD.(Proverbs 18:22 NIV)


Have you ever been walking along, minding your own business, and looked down and found a quarter, nickel, dime, or a dollar? Was it your touch that made it whatever it was you found or was it that before you even arrived on the scene? So maybe, just maybe, fellas looking for a good wife should try to find a woman that’s already in a marital relationship. No not polygamy. Try to find a woman that loves God and shows it. She flatters him with praise. She lets her hair down in worship. She’s open and honest with him about her expectations of him. She’s so faithful to Him, that she won’t show even her love for you in a way that would bring him pain, but insists upon you sharing in the love she has for him. She’s not conceited, but she is, “confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in her will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: (Philippians 1:6). She is virtuous, which in Hebrew means she has the strength of an army (yet cloaked in femininity).

Lastly, she wants a man that’s not intimidated by all that her first TRUE love (God is Love) has endowed her with, but understands and embraces the package of gifts she is because of Her God.

The Second Time Around

They placed the Ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the hillside home of Abinadab. Uzzah and Ahio, Abinadab's sons, were guiding the cart. David and all the people of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all their might, singing songs and playing all kinds of musical instruments – lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals. But when they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, the oxen stumbled, and Uzzah put out his hand to steady the Ark of God. Then the LORD's anger blazed out against Uzzah for doing this, and God struck him dead beside the Ark of God.

II Samuel 6:3,5-7

"After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites are to come to do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the Tent of Meeting. Numbers 4:15

In this story David is returning the Ark of the covenant to the land of Gods people, and he’s doing so with a great deal of fanfare; after all this is no doubt what God wants, but as the ark is being pulled on a new cart made for the occasion the Ark gets unsteady because of the oxen and Uzzah reaches out to catch it. He’s struck down and the trip is delayed for 3 months while David was angry.

The problem in this case wasn’t what they were doing, but in how it was being done. God wanted the Ark (his presence) to be carried by men not animals and a cart. The strange thing is that after Uzzah died, they CARRIED THE ARK to another person’s house where it sat for three months. Now how frustrating yet humbling is that? YOU have to give YOUR blessing to someone else in the same way YOU were supposed to secure it. The good thing is that God’s will never changed and what He has for you is still for you. Ooops! I mean what he had for David was still for David. After a short delay David and the Israelites took advantage of an opportunity to get it right.

So if you know anybody who’s been mourning the apparent loss of what they Know is from God, let them know all hope is not lost. It’s still theirs....They’ll get it…the next time......His way.

Accountability Quotes

"Accountability breeds response-ability."

Stephen R. Covey

 

"It is not only what we do,

but also what we do not do,

for which we are accountable."

Moliere

 

"Life is not accountable to us.

We are accountable to life."

Denis Waitley

 

"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself."

Walter Anderson

 

"I am not bound to win

but I am bound to be true;

I am not bound to succeed

but am bound to live up

to what light I have."

Abraham Lincoln

 

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for injury.”

John Stuart Mill

 

 

 

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