I'm reading Faithful God by Sinclair Ferguson. It's an exposition of the book of Ruth and boy is it convicting!!! A lot of the book focuses on how Christ-like Boaz was. Sinclair quotes Temple Gairdner, a missionary to Egypt, as an insight into Boaz's spirit--this is blow-your-head-off-good stuff. Gairdner wrote this on his wedding day:
That I may come near to her, draw me nearer to Thee than to her;
that I may know her, make me to know Thee more than her;
that I may love her with the perfect love of a perfectly whole heart,
cause me to love Thee more than her and most of all.
Amen. Amen.
He also penned these words earlier in his life in a journal:
Prayed definitely that I may be a man and have a heart one day pure and noble enough to be owned by and to own a woman's heart.
My Heavens!!! The paragraph above is what I've been praying for my relationship with my future husband except said in a much more eloquent manner. The journal entry is just what I pray my husband is praying right now.
For myself, I'm praying that I may have a heart one day pure and meek enough to be owned by and to own a man's heart.
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