A list

The speaker at last Wed's conference reminded me of how people have a list of characteristics/qualities that they want their future (or even current) spouses to have. Many years ago, I had mine too. But now, thinking back, I supposed that while I had made my list then, I had neglected to consider the list of characteristics/qualities that I myself should have.

So I imagine, what characteristics/ qualities would a godly man want his wife to have? To the best of my knowledge, I would think it would be these:

1. Purity.  

No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Or don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.” (1 Corinthians 6:18-20)

2. A gentle spirit.  

You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. (1 Peter 3:4)

3. Compassion for the lost

4. Patience

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act (Psalm 37:7)

Love is patient, love is kind (1 Cor 13:4)

5. Exudes joy

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones (Proverbs 17:22)

6. Submissive heart/ humility

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. (Eph 5:22-23)

Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (1 Peter 5:5)

7. Takes care of appearance but will not cause other men to stumble in their faith

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. (Proverbs 31:30)