Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
Be With Me is a daily 7 minute chronological walk through the New Testament hosted by Michael Smith. It is for everyone who is curious about what Jesus actually said and did in the gospels. Most episodes will leave you with at least one good thought to chew on for the rest of the day. We start with the Bible and hopefully end with Awe. We are walking through the chronological events of Jesus' life and then thoughtfully considering them. It is meant to spur the devotional life of the Christian and the not-yet-Christian. We occasionally venture into the Old Testament when it helps our understanding of the New Testament events. Everybody has 7 minutes. Everybody needs to wonder. Be With Me is hosted by Michael Smith who has absolutely no special qualifications to do a podcast. He is not a pastor. He has not been to seminary. He does not lead a mega-church. He is not a professional and he has no more credentials than you do. He does, however, follow a great God with an observant eye and a curious heart. Each day, he starts with a study bible and aims for astonishment. ‘be with him’ for 7 minutes as he sets out daily to discover the God who invites us to ‘Be With Me.’
Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
Have a wife. Happy life. (At least for a year) S29e58 Dt24:5
We live in a world of wars but you get to chose a wife
We live in a world of Hostilities, and I have provided for you a husband
If you are not married, sow the seeds that make you marriage-ready. 75% of the time the problem isn’t FINDING "the right one" it is BEING the right one. Grow in purity; grow as a provider, grow in preparation, Grow in prayer for a future spouse—they likely are struggling just as much with aloneness and all the challenges of singleness ; and grow in pursuit…not of a spouse, but of God.
If you are married, grow in happiness by growing in gratefulness for the one you chose. Hurry, you only get a year... Please subscribe in the meantime.
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Have a wife. Happy life. (At least for a year) S29e58 Dt24:5
He has to demonstrate His kindness to an undeserving people group, Israel, building a rapscallion people group. Why? so that eventually He can demonstrate His kindness to another undeserving fallen PERSON, YOU
In an unfallen world there would be marriage but no divorce.
But yesterday we talked about the fallenness in our relational world in the area of divorce
Let’s talk about one of the greatest blessings ever given to mankind: marri
Let’s back the bus up to the blessing of marriage .
This is one of the sweetest verses about marriage in the whole bible Dt24:
5 “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.
Here is the reality: the verse assumes: World of armies and conflicts
We live in a world of wars but you get to chose a wife
We live in a world of Hostilities, and I have provided for you a husband
World of liabilities and duties is not denied
But we also have a world of marriage: In marriage people enjoy better health, longer life, the blessing children, financial stability.
In general the stability of cultures forcasted by the stability of marriage.
Our subject today highlights a new benefit: HAPPINESS.
Think about this: an ongoing relationshiop in this covenant can result in a more merry life, Spouse can gladden the miles travelled
The Hebrew word is a strong one to be glad; to REJOICE,
Makes me think of Gen 2: But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to theman. 23 Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Adam gets this conceptimmediately: it is a demonstrative exclaimation of wonder; of intimacy; UREKA! This is it. She’s the one!
He recognizes himself in this other creation of wonder
But he also recognizes otherness, a new creation, a new birth
He understands the new relationship formed that it should be treasured and workedfor: holding fast isn’t for sissies
He sees that things have to change in priorities with old mom and dad
And he sees the purpose and pleasure in the one flesh, nakedness and unashamedness.
5 “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.
Home is where your spouse is, where ever that may be.
Regarding the timing: you get one year, 365 days, so make the most of it.
The world of responsibilities and wars will be waiting for you when you get back
But here, “newlyweds” get special privileges.
While you are in this phase, your distant and dangerous responsibilities are put on hold.
Eventually, we will need soldiers who are married
The dispensation doesn’t last forever, but it does last for 4 seasons.
If you are not married, sow the seeds that make you marriage-ready. 75% of the time the problem isn’t FINDING the right one it is BEING the right 1
Just some things come to mind: grow in purity; grow as a provider, grow in preparation, Grow in prayer for a future spouse—they likely are struggling just as much with aloneness and all the challenges of singleness ; and grow in pursuit…not of spouse, but towards God
If you are married, Listen to what God was doing in the background. Genesis 2:18
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
The aloneness is seen by God
God was at work before they met.
Before they met, God was making
Before they met God was making a helper fit for exactly him.
So if you are married, you then are likely looking at your helper fit exactly for you across the dinner table…What are you gonna do about it?
Marriage is to make you merry in general.
If you are in a grouchy phase, let it be temporary and o’er whelmed by gratefulness. You are be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.