The Difference A Wife Makes.

"Xerxes didn't need what 100 concubines could give him. He needed a wife...."

Four years had brought kingdom growth and decline, decrees made and established, and beautiful women to entertain and entrance. But Xerxes remembered his wife and something different inside him felt the emptiness remain.

I have often wondered the difference for men in pornography... and relationship. This is such an industry, that my perplexion is distraught, as well as peaked. It seems all society realizes that women long and crave and need relationship, but it often paints that men... don't.

But scripture points out, and Xerxes captures:

They do.

The reference, the verses, the chords of his emotions all point to:

The difference a wife makes.

He had concubines and harems galore. He had beautiful women, dancers, and women exposed. But something in his heart longed for me. Something in his heart felt the absence. Something in his soul needed a friend, a lover, a companion. His spirit craved the depth of having the one person, the intimate one.

The one who is: wife.

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*Quote from Esther study by Beth Moore