Today’s Scripture
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth. Proverbs 5:18, ESV
Today’s Devotion
Why should you still actively pursue your spouse? After all, you’re married. And you learned about each other while dating – hobbies, habits, quirks, and preferences.
As it turns out, there’s quite a bit more to learn about your spouse! It takes a lifetime to get to know the person you married. Proverbs 5:18 challenges couples to rejoice in each other’s company. What does it mean to “rejoice” in your spouse’s company? Author and Bible teacher Tim Challies explains: “To rejoice in your wife means to actively pursue her, to do those things that delight and allure her, and to maintain an active and ongoing interest in her. To rejoice in your wife means to refuse to rejoice in anyone else – to refrain from desiring anyone else, to refuse from allowing your eyes to linger or your heart to long for any other woman. Through cycles of illness and health, ability and inability, desire and apathy, and all the other highs and lows that come with decades together, rejoice in her, in her body, in her and her alone.”
Actively pursuing your spouse takes intentionality. It requires you to make time in your busy schedule to spend together. It means being purposeful and using that time to rediscover your spouse.
Valentines’ Day is coming soon. Schedule time together – go on a date, take a walk, share a dessert – and rejoice in each other’s company. Enjoy getting to know your spouse all over again.
Today’s Prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of my spouse. Remind us to make time to rediscover each other and to rejoice in each other’s company. Remind us why we first fell in love. Amen.
