Posted on 01/21/2020 11:32:31 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman” (Proverbs 21:19).
The reason is obvious. Contentious means to be constantly arguing and nagging. Now, I know that men are always accusing their wives of nagging, but it is nothing like this woman. If a man could set his wife beside this woman for a day, he’d be mighty blessed that he has the woman he has and not this one. A contentious person is one that is always quarreling about every little thing.
“Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools” (Ecclesiastes 7:9). Therefore, an angry woman is a fool. She is definitely not in the mold of what Peter considered to be a good wife: “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price” (I Peter 3:1-4). If you have a woman like this, you had better thank God mightily.
A man would be better off to go to Dick’s Sporting Goods and buy him a tent, a Coleman stove, and a lantern and go live in the woods than to live in this situation. Of course, it’s likely his own fault as he no doubt was more interested in the woman’s outward beauty than her inward beauty when he married her. It is so much better to wait on the Lord and let Him give you a good wife, for they are surely hard to find.
When a man finds a good wife, it is the closest thing to a heaven on earth. There is nothing better in this world than to have a good woman, be saved, have children that love the Lord, and a roof over your head. One man said, “Christians in America live like kings.” I don’t know about that, but I do agree with the fellow that told us that we are all King’s kids.
There is a dispensational application, and Tribulation aspect, to verse 19. During the Times of Jacob’s Trouble, Israel will be living in the wilderness because of an angry woman. Who is she? She is that old harlot of Revelation 17. She is angry at the saints of God during the Tribulation and tries to destroy them.
Daily Bible study is necessary if we are going to begin our day with the right attitude and the right spiritual diet. Proverbs has 31 chapters, and most months have 31 days, so let’s read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let’s keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread! Ideally, a chapter or two of Proverbs will fit in nicely with a good plan of reading our Bibles through each year.
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Love this. Very applicable today.
I guess we can all be thankful that we are not Mr. Pelosi!
Pilgrim's Progress, I apologize for making a joke right off the bat when you are trying to do a seriously helpful thing with this thread. I should have been more thoughtful.
I don’t see how you could have avoided it . . . if Nancy isn’t the poster girl for the contentious woman, I don’t know who is!
True. May I further suggest the shrieking Greta?
Isaiah 3:4 "“I will give children to be their princes, And babes shall rule over them." KJV
Or the narcissist harridan Hillary?
Judges 16:16 "And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death" ////////////////////////
God has blessed me with a wonderful wife and I thank Him for her daily.
Hopefully the men of Sweden are wise enough not to want to marry a girl like Greta.
True.
Maybe they’ll offer to export her. Maybe to Antarctica. She can study global warming there.
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