Years ago while in prayer, a man asked God to send him a wife, for the Bible says, "you have not because you ask not." He not only told the Lord that he wanted a wife, but even detailed the kind of wife he was looking for. He told the Lord he wanted someone who was kind, tender, gentle, loving, sincere, peaceful, generous, sensitive, understanding, warm, humorous, trustful, and godly. As time passed he added more qualities to this list from his heart’s desire for a wife, such as considerate, helpful, and compassionate. Then one night in prayer, God spoke to his heart and said, "Son, I will not give you what you’ve asked for in a wife." "Why not, Lord?" asked the man. The Lord replied, "For I am a just God and a God of righteousness, and all I do is just and right." "I know that, Lord," the man said, "But I don’t understand why You will not give me the wife I asked for." "Then I will explain," said the Lord. "It would not be just and right for Me to grant you your wish, for I cannot give you something that you are not yourself. It would not be fair for me to grant you someone who is loving when you are often hateful, someone who is kind when you are sometimes mean, someone who is generous when you are often stingy, someone who is helpful when you rarely help, or someone who is sensitive when you are so often insensitive." "Instead of wasting time praying that I will give you someone with all the qualities you desire, or trying to find such a person yourself, you should instead allow me to make you into a man who has all those qualities himself, for I will not give you a wife with so many good qualities that you do not have. "If you allow Me to work upon your soul and spirit and mold your heart as I choose, then when you see the one that I have for you, you will be able to say like Adam, ‘She is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh,’ for you will see yourself in her." The man thought upon it and agreed. And God remade Him and remade her, and they met, and they were joined husband and wife and became one flesh.
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