Date: Monday, 30th June, 2025
Texts: Proverbs 5:18-20
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
If your marriage must succeed you must engage the seventh principle called the Contentment principle.
To be contented is to be happy and satisfied with what you have. Without this virtue, you won’t be happy even if you marry one hundred spouses. If you don’t believe me ask the woman at the well.
The woman at the well thought she was going to get a better spouse so she kept divorcing them one after the other hoping to get a better man. She didn’t even after 5 husbands. She got tired of getting married and started flirting around the sixth man who was not her husband. This was her condition before she met Christ- John 4:1-19.
Covetousness is the result of lack of contentment and we are warned not to covet a neighbour’s spouse. Even though king David already had four spouses, he still coveted another person’s wife, namely Bathsheba before God’s hammer of judgment landed on him- 2 Samuel 11-12:1-20.
His Son, king Solomon even explored more looking for something he couldn’t get in 700 wives of royal birth. He still coveted after 300 other women called concubines- 1 Kings 11:3.
At the end of the day, he realized that everything was vanity upon vanity. He came to the reality that all he accumulated gave him no sense of fulfillment but found that they were ultimately futile, empty, and without lasting value. It’s like chasing the wind or trying to grasp smoke.
The word of God says, “Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. As a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and always be enraptured with her love. For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, and be embraced in the arms of a seductress?”Proverbs 5:18-20
Changing spouses or accumulating them does not still satisfy until you embrace the virtue of contentment in Christ Jesus.
Key Nugget: Godliness with contentment is great gain- 1 Timothy 6:6.
Bible in One Year: Psalm 141-150