How sweet it is to be married to a king. Every woman who is married to a king is a queen. It is an honor and a privilege to be married to a king. It is the wife who makes her husband a king. The Bible says that an excellent wife is the crown of her husband.
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, Proverbs 12:4a
Any wife can be married to a king but it is the wife who determines the kingship of her husband. She is the one who enthrones her husband. She enthrones her husband with her praise.
Yet You are holy, You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel. Psalm 22:3
The wife is to be a picture of God’s people, the church. Just as the Lord delights in the praise of His people so a husband delights in the praise of his wife. It is pleasant to him and becoming to her.
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and praise is becoming. Psalm 147:1
An excellent wife is a wife who does her husband good all of the days of her life. Her praise does her husband good and encourages and stimulates him to become the husband that the Lord designed him to be.
An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is far above jewels.
The heart of her husband trusts in her,
And he will have no lack of gain.
She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life. Proverbs 31:10-12
When a wife is an excellent wife then she increases her worth to her husband and her own self worth grows as she becomes the wife that God designed her to be. Her worth is far above jewels. Her husband will trust in her and he will treat her like a queen, as every wife longs to be treated.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Proverbs 16:24
Praise is pleasant to a man. Her husband will love to be with her when her words are pleasant. It will keep him from the temptations of an adulteress woman who flatters with her lips. Praise and flattery sound the same but it is the motive. Praise is to build up and flattery is to manipulate. A man needs praise and will go where he is praised. However, he can not see through the manipulations of the flattery of an adulteress.
To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words; Proverbs 2:16
The opposite of praise is shame. A wife who shames her husband is bitterness to him. It is rottenness to his bones. It is difficult for a man to be around a wife who shames him. He will have no joy and will want to escape.
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones. Proverbs 12:4
A man has given a woman the greatest honor when he proposes marriage to her. He is asking her to be his queen. Every man wants to be a king and he wants to marry the woman he proposes to because he thinks that she loves him and will honor and respect him. If for no other reason a wife should honor her husband with praise by wanting him to be a king because he has first honored her in asking her to be his queen.
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