A Father's Wisdom: "Be Faithful In Marriage"

Brother John T. Polk II (see bio), has provided us with an excellent analysis of Proverbs 5:1-23 here. I especially enjoyed reading his excellent commentary and analysis of Proverbs 5:15-20 regarding “The Treasure” (that treasure being “the wife of your youth” mentioned in verse 18).

Brother Polk’s commentary and analysis:

Your own “cistern” (tank for collecting drinking water) and your own “well” are safe water supplies and become ways of saying: “Don’t drink the water” of another woman. “Your fountains” would be your ability to make children who would not have Scriptural parentage, when your children should only be from you and your own wife.

Satisfy “your fountain” only with your own “wife of your youth.” Since most men marry early in life, the safest sexual relationship anyone can have is to remain faithful in your commitment to your first love!

Safe sex and deep love are bonds God has based a monogamous, heterosexual marriage relationship upon (Ephesians 5:22-33). “Rejoice” (be happy) with your own wife; view her as lovely and graceful as deer and a doe; “at all times” be “satisfied” with her “breasts” and no one else’s; “always be enraptured with her love,” never thinking any other should be equal or better.

Be satisfied with your decision to marry her, always! How could you possibly “be enraptured” by “an immoral woman” whose arms are of “a seductress,” who leads to HELL? There is no good truth in an adultress!

A word of wisdom to husbands: Stay faithful to “the wife of your youth” and you won’t have the temptation to involve yourself with “an immoral woman.” Remember, the grass always looks greener on the other side, until you get to the other side!

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets