Quote of the Day

The image of a "ewe Lamb" in the following quote is a reference to the description of Uriah's wife when Nathan confronted David with his sin.

(…Yet in a tender moment when I told Brenda [the author's wife] that I wanted to treat her like a “ewe lamb,” she felt honored rather than offended.)…As Bathsheba was precious to Uriah, your wife is your precious one, your only one. She lives with you and lies in your arms. She’s to be cherished, not because of what she does for you, but because of her essence, her value to God as a child born in His image. You’ve been entrusted with the priceless essence of another human soul, so precious to God that at the foundation of the world He planned to pay His dearest price to buy her back again…When you look deeply enough into your wife’s eyes, past the pain and hurts and fights, you can still find that little ewe lamb gazing back, hoping all things and trusting all things.

[Arterburn, Stephen, Fred Stoeker, and Mike Yorkey, Every Mans‘s Battle (WaterBrook Press, 2000), pg. 197