Proverbs 21:9: Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Insight
Happy must the family be where the lovely order of God’s word is recognized as to the various relationships of each one. If the husband render unto the wife due benevolence, and the wife be adorned by the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, the children are likely to be in godly subjection, and the home a sweet foretaste of that eternal one for which we wait. But where a brawling woman seeks to rule, and will not be content unless she has things her own way, it is most unpleasant. 1
Application
Marriage always involves two people. It takes two people for strife to exist. It takes two people for contention to rule. It takes two people for frustration to dominate. But it also takes two people to enjoy a satisfying relationship where love believes, hopes, and endures all things. It begins when each person individually surrenders everything to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Will you make it your aim to live each day to please the Lord, and then trust Him to work out all the details in the other person’s life?
Motivation
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband. Proverbs 12:4
Compassion is the best cure for contention. – TWEET IT
Prayer
Father, I am thankful for your grace that can melt away the strife.
1. Ironside, H. A. (1908). Notes on the Book of Proverbs. Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Bros.
