Judges 13:21-23
The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord. And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.” But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”
Tag: Thank God for Spiritual Wives
In the above passage we have the conclusion of the announcement of the birth of Samson by God to Manoah and his wife. The story begins with the Angel of the Lord (an appearance of Jesus in the Old Testament ... known as a Theophany) appearing to Manoah's wife to announce her pregnancy for Samson (we are never told her name). Based upon the way the story develops and with the above passage as our shinning light, it appears as though Manoah is spiritually dull! He doesn't seem to "get it." In the above passage His I've has to explain him the simply logic that if God was going to use them for the birth of Samson, God was not going to kill them. Yet, his faith is either non-existent at the worse, or , severally limited at the best. Manoah needed to be thankful for a Godly wife. Many wives spend hours of energy working on the outside of their bodies. Apparently Manoah's wife had spent some time on the inside of her life. She was spiritually sensitive to the things of God. A wife that is sensitive to God is a wife who can be sensitive to the needs of her husband. A wife who pleases God is a wife who can please her husband. Solomon, who had countless wives and concubines (unexplainable), said it best in these verses:
Proverbs 12:4
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,
but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 18:22
He who finds a wife finds a good thing
and obtains favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 19:14
House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
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