No Greater Godly Blessing - Proverbs 31:27-29

She watches over the ways of her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children rise up and call her blessed;
Her husband also, and he praises her:
“Many daughters have done well,
But you excel them all.” - Proverbs 31:27-29 

  I believe I can make the argument that God’s greatest earthly blessing to man is . . . his wife! God’s providence delivers us with a seemingly unending myriad of earthly blessings. From rain for our crops to cooler summer evenings to the majesty of the seashore to the children he fathers to a long and fruitful life, man is most assuredly blessed. But no blessing is greater than the woman God created to be a “helper comparable to him.” In fact, man needed this “helper” so badly that God found her absence to be the first thing in all His creation that was “not good.”
“And the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.’” - Genesis 2:18.
    How do we men see our helpers? Do we see them as the very gift of God? If not, why not? Have we blinded ourselves to the value that God placed on His gift to us? Have we let our egos run over the best things that have ever happened to us?
    A man may know many women in his lifetime. From his mother to his sisters to his daughters to the girls and women he has called his friends, but he will never know another woman like his wife. He knows her heart . . . and she knows his. He knows her pain; she knows his. He knows her needs; she knows his. In fact, all he knows of her, she knows of him, and more. That is what a helper does. Surely, they know our desires but more important, they know our needs. Often times our wives know us better than we know ourselves.
    A wife will watch over us, our homes, and our children like a lioness in the veldt. True, her children will call her a blessing and true her husband need praise her often and enthusiastically! There is no greater Godly blessing than a loving wife.
    Our children will grow and move on into their own lives. And what are we left with? If we men do not count our wives as blessings then what on earth do we count them as? They should be esteemed as our very lives are. They should be as important to us as our own heartbeats - “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” - Genesis 2:24.
    Speak to her and of her and treat her with respect. Defend her with your very life. Man has been called to be a good steward of all God has given him; that includes our wives. Cherish her and love her the way God intended for us to do so.
    May we always be most grateful for God’s greatest earthly blessing to us: our wives. Have a blessed and happy Mother’s Day!