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The answer is very simple.  It takes one to know one.  If you are obedient to God's specific laws and His LawWord in general you will easily know to separate the sheep from the goats.

 

The kind of obedience I am speaking of requires that you study and discuss and learn God's laws, precepts, wisdom, teachings, admonitions, and examples, when you get up and when you lie down, when you come and when you go, and while you are walking or riding in the car.  In other words, you are to seek out every opportunity to have God's character, reflected perfectly in every word of Scripture and acted out in real life by Jesus with perfect fidelity, be impressed upon you so that you become a walking, talking applier of God's will in whatever you do and say.

 

It is a big job.  It will be like going to school full-time except more so.  We are to write the law on our hands and put it between our eyes and on our doorposts and gates and write it on our hearts.  Write God's laws on Post It Notes and place them everywhere in your house and car.  Get an MP3 player and listen to God's LawWord as taught by R J Rushdoony or Greg Bahnsen, the greatest teachers of God's Law in our time - deceased now but both left behind lots of listening (and reading) material.  Read Tom Shipley’s book on Man and Woman in Biblical Law for the Biblical doctrine of marriage - very important for our topic here.

 

Beware of "handy-dandy hermeneutics" created by Pharisees of all types, who make the Word of God of none effect by their traditions.  I have already written about this elsewhere.

 

Now, when you think you have found someone that seems to fit all the above criteria there is one more thing to be sure of him: he must easily and willingly give of himself sacrificially for others, especially fellow believers.  That is, he must demonstrate his willingness to bear the burdens of others.  "Bear one another’s burdens and thus fulfill the law of the Christ." Galatians 6:2.  It seems like a contradiction but we only have life in ourselves when we have our life in others.

 

Thus while Christ incarnate is the mediator between God and man, His LawWord is the mediator between man and man.  That is, when we incarnate the LawWord of God and are married to another such person, you not only have the formula for a successful relationship, you have the basis for heaven on earth.  No matter the number of women married to a man, when all their relationships are encompassed round about by the Law of God, there will be no jealousy among them, only harmony and mutual help as they bear on another's burdens.  This division of labor is the source wealth in any economy.

 

Right now there are very few such godly men as far as I can see.  I have spent years trying to convince other Christian men of the ongoing validity of God's Law but no matter how much homage and verbal accent they give to it, when it comes down to doing anything that would result in a change in their behavior they always seem to slip out of it at the last moment with a handy-dandy hermeneutic or they just plainly say that the price is too high for them to pay.  They go along to get along, and move with the mainstream of the culture (albeit on the conservative side), refusing to pay any price or challenge any tradition to more closely align themselves with the Law of God.  Then they wonder why their prayers bounce off the ceiling.  God does not take their words too seriously is because they adamantly refuse to take His Word too seriously.

 

So I am appealing to godly women.  Be women of God.  Submit yourself to Him.  Beautify yourself by learning obedience to every word of God and then pray for a man of similar character - married or not - and let the world be astonished as it witnesses your enthusiastic obedience and service to him in the Lord.  Make all other Christian men want to be as godly as that man so as to attract godly women as you.