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| By Pastor Richard Minet |
MARRIED OR CARRIED
(Payment or Non Payment of Bride Price)
Overview:
- The value you placed on something.
- believers and tradition.
- Taking someone's daughter as a wife without honoring the family by paying her bride prize.
1Sam. 18:20-25
Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him... Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son- in-law.” And Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in private and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king's son-in-law.’”... And David said, “Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?” And the servants of Saul told him, “Thus and so did David speak.” Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride price EXCEPT a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.’”
The value you place on a thing is determined by the price you are willing to pay for it. While it is important to not allow greed or covetousness to rule our hearts especially in not using marriage as a catalyst for changing our financial fortunes, we must be careful not to make young people irresponsible by totally relieving them of certain vital responsibilities to tradition and custom.
