“Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord” (Proverbs 19:14).
There are many things a man can give his children and grandchildren. He can give his heirs property, possessions, wealth, and a good name. He can set up trusts, accounts, and investments for his heirs. But he cannot provide his son with one of life’s greatest, richest blessings—a prudent wife. She is something his money and net worth cannot buy.
A prudent wife is from Jehovah because He is the One who has provided the explicit instructions (in Prov. 31:10-31; Titus 2:4-5; 1 Pet. 3:1-6, et. al.) for how a wise woman lives her daily life with her husband and children. A prudent wife is beyond her father-in-law’s providence because she—and she alone—determines whether she will live in joyful obedience to God’s instructions concerning her vital roles as wife and mother. As a free moral agent, she—and she alone—decides whether she is submissive to her husband, is contentious with him, cultivates a meek and quiet spirit, is a homemaker, is a virtuous woman.
As the old MasterCard ad used to say, “there are some things money can’t buy”.
Amen. A prudent wife is one of them.
