Making Wrong Choice in Marriage: Devotion for Sunday April 19, 2020

MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL

Devotion for Sunday April 19, 2020

Text: Making Wrong Choice in Marriage                

Text: 1 Kings 11:1 – 8

Many of us spend so much time in prayer asking for God’s blessings upon our lives but I wonder if we actually ask God for wisdom in managing these blessings when He gives them to us. Inability to manage God’s blessings can mar us.  

The story of Solomon, a man of wisdom marrying 700 wives is an instance of depravity recorded in the Bible. The choice you make in life matters so much in what you finally become. Solomon made wrong choice in marriage simply because he felt he has fame and money therefore he can use them without discretion.

Biblical marriage is source of happiness in life and the neglect or violation of biblical marriage is a source of many of the most direful evils which most men are exposed to. Solomon was wrong by going for more than one wife, going to marry from other nations which God prohibited them from taking wives and adding 300 concubines.

This is how many people have made wrong choices in marriage by going for the hand of the women God didn’t keep for them. The strange women succeeded in introducing Solomon to their gods. These turned his heart from the Almighty God. Wrong choices in marriage can mar our relationship with God. Therefore, for those who are single, they should be careful on the decisions they make. Don’t go against God’s standard or else you will pay dearly for it.

Food for Thought: No man is wise enough by himself.

Memory verse: Deuteronomy 17:17

Prayer: Lord, grant unto the singles the wisdom to make right choices concerning their marriages in Jesus name.

The Wise Woman

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Devotion for Mothering Sunday March 26, 2017

Topic: The Wise Woman

Text: Proverbs 14:1

Happy Mothers’ Day celebration to all women especially those of Anglican Communion Worldwide! Prov. 31:10ff give an insight into what a virtuous woman looks like. Such a woman can be described as the wise woman. Today, in our society, most women cannot be classified as wise simply because of their ineptitude, selfishness, greed and poor understanding of their roles in marriage.

A wise woman by her prudent and industrious management increases property in the family, food and raiment for her household. These increases also include wealth, children, social status through wise control of the family’s resources, support for the husband and godly training of the children (Proverbs 31:10ff).

The foolish woman diminishes her home by arbitrary and careless mismanagement of the family which includes wealth, children, husband, etc. She destroys her home through her ineptitude, selfishness, greed and poor understanding of their roles in marriage.

As we celebrate Mothers’ Day it will be proper for our women and mothers to re-assess their lives; their marriages and their families. How industrious are you in making home an envy of others or you destroy your home with arbitrary quest for fashion and outward beauty at the expense of your family urgent needs? The quest for things worldly should not take precedence over the things eternal. Build your home by complementing your husband.

Action: Write down the ways a wise woman builds her home and the ways a foolish woman destroys her home, and make a comparison with your life.

Memory verse: Proverbs 14 verse 1 - The wisest of women builds her house,
but folly with her own hands tears it down (ESV).

Prayer: Lord God; bless all women and mothers, and make them wise in Jesus name. Amen.